Bill and I visited our hives yesterday. The Brown hive had scores of new bees doing orienteering flights. Popped the lid on this hive and saw that the bees and queen had moved up to four frames in the top brood box. That was all that I needed to see so we put the hive back together. This is a very good hive and should be quite strong going into the fall. Inspection at the home hives yield similar results for hives 1 and 3. Might get some honey off of these two hives. Hive two and four are still a little on the weak side but saw good queen activity and laying patterns in both hives.
Will add feed to hives two and four later in the week. Decided that the top feeders are not the way to go for me. I will be switching back to mason jars. This is my favorite method of feeding as the feed stays fresh and does not drown any bees , something the top feeders are prone to do. The feed tends to go bad as well. So I end up dumping a lot of it out.
Next inspection will be in two weeks to see if the honey supers are fully capped and ready to harvest.
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