It’s been a month now for the bees to get used to their new digs. They have adapted well. The move from the NUC box to the hive body went well. I gave them a week to get used to their new home and their environment before messing with them. At that time, I fed them using the gallon zip-loc method. I had a couple of shallow bodies that I stacked on top of the lower. This gave me room to put the bag full of feed on top of the frames. Having an engineering background, I understand the concept of surface tension of liquids. It still doesn’t feel right to reach in and cut a slit in the top of the bag that is full of 5 pounds of sugar-water. But, it does work, and it works well.
A couple of weeks ago, I shuffled the frames. I took one of the empty outer frames and shifted it to the center of the frames. This also worked well. They had been slowly working their way from the middle frames toward the two ends. This seemed to have kicked in some kind of instinct telling them jump on that frame and fill it.
Hive number 2 is still much stronger than number 1. Number 1 hive might not catch up until next spring. We’ll see. It is almost time to put a second hive body on hive number 2. It’s about 70% full. I have a couple of mid depth bodies that I will put on as soon as I put together the frames.
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