Sunday, May 18

Melissa and I went to check on the ladies... they have been busy. They have filled 4 of the 10 frames with wax. The eggs we saw during our last visit are in various phases of development- most are 'capped' with wax- the final stage before they come out as new bees. The queen is laying eggs in almost every empty comb, all day every day. jeez- what a life. We have been feeding our bees a syrup mixture of 2-1 sugar to water to help them excrete wax and build their comb- which they have surely been using. On our next visit I am hoping that we can add the second box on top. This will add 10 more frames for the bees to fill with wax, and the queen will still be busy laying eggs. The hive will wind up having 4 boxes- the bottom two being full of bees and honey for them, and the top two being full of just honey (for us) and no bees. But, we have a while before we get into all of that...