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Title: This time I really looked
Post by: LoriMNnice on May 13, 2012, 06:33:29 PM
I inspected both hives today, and seen lots of larvae capped and uncapped in the yellow hive(nuc) and the queen cup was gone, on some of the frames they built comb on the bottoms that reached down to the bottom board and it looked like drone cells, do I remove that comb since its not in the right spot? I did remove a piece of comb that reached out to the next frame but down to the bottom board like a finger it was really really long(not a queen cell though)

In the pink hive(package) I seen the queen :) and a far amount of capped larvae and uncapped larvae they are still building comb in the foundationless frames i removed a tiny piece they built in a wrong spot.

both hives had capped honey mostly in the corners of where the capped larvae was but i am guessing its not really honey since I am feeding them. both had cells with pollen too.

So I think all is going well, I did take my camera with but it was dead!
Title: Re: This time I really looked
Post by: Kathyp on May 13, 2012, 06:38:49 PM
right spot for you, or right spot for them?   ;)

they often build comb in odd places for drones. they are going to put drones somewhere, so as long as it's not messing up my ability to inspect i usually leave it. 
Title: Re: This time I really looked
Post by: LoriMNnice on May 13, 2012, 06:59:31 PM
Wrong spot for them and me in pink hive :)  it looked like they were starting to build a comb next to a comb they already built in the same frame, so I over ruled the bees and made the decision that they could not have a 2 layer comb  :-D

As far as the drone comb goes in the yellow hive it probably is the right spot for them :) I left it alone it wasn't bothering me
Title: Re: This time I really looked
Post by: AllenF on May 13, 2012, 07:14:01 PM
Good job with fixing the bad comb early.