After a couple of weeks we thought it would be a good time to check up on the girls, it is very hot, 24 °C with a fell like temp of 29°C at 10:30 in the morning. The bees weren't to active, they were busy at the front of the hive, lined up pushing air in to help cool it down, and most of them were still home, not out getting more food. At least that is what it seemed. We didn't see the Queen this time but there were Larva in the new drawn out foundation and they cap the Larva at day 9 so we know she was still there, because it has been 18 days since our last inspection. At first I thought they filled the new super with honey like the previous one, but ReBecca thought it might be capped brood. I though honey because the capping's were yellow in color and ReBecca mentioned then it could be golden rod honey. When I scarped away some extra combs to clean things up a bit I looked and they were capped Pupa. This is great because the colony is growing like we wanted. Things are looking up.
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| Pushing air into the hive to cool it down. |
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| Our new foundation, drawn out and filled with brood. |
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| A broken cell with Pupa exposed, a small loss. |
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| A large comb that gets in the way, needs to be cleaned up. |
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| It left a little hole in the foundation, they'll fix it quickly. |
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| Lots of bees, to hot for doing anything today. |
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