LITTLE MISS & ROZINA
70°F
Sunny
Calm
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| A View of Little Miss from Rozina |
Rozina was a bit defensive when i opened her up. Her gallon of 1:1 syrup had crystallized. It looked like she took maybe half of it before it hardened. The bees were mostly up in the top box still. frames 2 & 3 had capped worker pupa & eggs, nectar, pollen, & honey. Frames 4, 5, & 6, were solid eggs or larva. Frames 7 had a bunch of eggs too but the queen had put more than one egg into a few cells. Young queens will do that from time to time. The workers sort it out afterward. The queen should stop doing that soon. The Queen was on frame 9, a nectar frame. This box had plenty of walking Drones too. The ones that came in with the package. The population in the top box was fair.
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| Bad habits of young Queens |
The bottom box was being back filled with pollen and nectar. The Queen hadn't got down there yet. Plus, there are still lots of empty cells for the queen to use. The worker population in this box was poor.
For a new colony she is doing well. I don't know why she moved up to the top box so fast. Just as long as she moves down again instead of swarming once the top box is filled.
Little Miss was very calm in contrast to Rozina. Lots of activity in her new top box. Frames 5, 6, 7, & 8 had eggs, larva, & pupa. The Queen was on frame 5. The population in this hive was OK.
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| A very good Queen Miss |
The bottom box had 4 frames of brood; 5, 6, 7, & 8. Though frame 6 is almost a solid frame of drone cells and they've begun to emerge. The brood pattern was spotty but those are the over-wintering frames. Productive but not uniform. I believe they'll work it out but i'll keep an eye on it. Also patches of new honey being capped on the outer frames.
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| Almost solid Drone Frame |
Both colonies look good for now. They need to continue brooding up. Still hoping to make some splits if the population grow fast enough. Still waiting for Rozina to find the bottom box.
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