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I checked my hive today and saw some capped brood and some larva. My eyes aren’t good enough to see the eggs. 🤷‍♀️ But I quit looking once I found capped brood and larva so I’m assuming the Queen is still there. 😊🐝

I’m going to see if I can get my friend’s husband ( a bee keeper with experience !) to come over and help me do a mute count. I’ve never done one before. When I had bees before this is when my mentor became too busy to be able to mentor me any more. I’m also hoping he will have advice for...

I think they are Carolians but I wouldn’t swear to it. I just remember that they are “local” bees raised in a town a few hours away from me. :oops:

So I got into my hive again a few days ago. They still aren't doing much of anything in the super, but the 2nd deep is almost all honey. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to fix this. I don't know if I have a 3rd deep. I'll have to look in the basement and see what's still down there. If I do have...

Checked my hive, well, only the super, yesterday. My smoker’s lid is stuck shut so I couldn’t use it. Plus it was looking like it was going to start raining at any moment. The super has been on for 2 or 3 weeks (I was afraid it was going to be full up, so was checking to see if I needed to add a...

She was in a nuc. A local one from my state ( Missouri ) but a few hours south of me. I watched the lady at the store mark her and she’s the one that said the seller was supposed to send them pre-marked but hadn’t and that she was an overwintered queen.

They said she was from last year 🤷‍♀️

I was able to get back into my hive a few days ago. Still didn’t see the Queen. Even with a magnifying glass I didn’t see any eggs. But I haven’t own up these pictures on my computer yet to see if I can find any that way. The Queen is supposed to be marked with white.

@duluthralphie I agree that the first section looks like uncapped honey. @BirdsBeesTrees I didn’t include a picture of their capped honey but it is much whiter in color than what is shown which is why I think the yellow capped is probably brood. Sometimes the capped brood is browner but I was...

2nd picture. I just blew on them a little to get them to move so I could see what was under them better. Do you agree with me that this is capped brood?

Here is the first picture.

My bee hive is doing great {as long as the queen is still there 🙏}. I had just hived them 2 days before we left town and had given them almost 10 frames of already drawn comb. I was able to check on them for the first time the day after we got home {11 days after they went in}. They were...

Thanks !

Thank you!

I’m going to try bees again this Spring/Summer. Hopefully I can do a better job with mite control and small hive beetles as that is what I think led to the downfall of my hives the year before last. I let my hives sit empty for a year and am hoping that all the cold freezing temperatures we are...

Are you going to start over in the spring?

The comb is all good, well there are some frames with holes where I was going after small hive beetles. Then my husband accidently got over spray of Flex Seal on 5 or 6 medium frames, so I figure those are ruined. I don't think the bees can clean those up, but I'm not sure about that either...

I am trying to decide if I want to order 2 packages of bees for the 2 hives that left/died out or just get 1 package/nuc like I did last year. I am pretty sure that I have to do a MUCH better job in regards to mites and small hive beetles. I think those are what weakened my hives so much. I also...

Thanks for sharing, that was interesting!

I have more pictures but didn’t want to over do it.