I am new to the list, and I am new to bee keeping. I accumulated two old empty hives my dad used to use. A friend of mine ordered us some bees and he helped me put them in the first of april. One of the hives of bees are doing great. They started hanging out a couple of weeks ago, so I put another hive body on top. The other hive started to have some hang out on the front of it , but not very many. So I put a hive body on it. there was some honey bilt up in the middle, almost sticking through the hole in the cover. Any way , my problem is there is one hive doing well. When it starts to get dark, it sounds like a chain saw running . The other however is so quite you can hardly hear it. When I set and watch the bees come and go, there are a lot of drones coming and going in the weak hive. There is about 30 bees at the opening at any one time. Should I look to see if there is any brood or do any of you think the queen is probably OK , and I am just overly concerned. thanks for any info Dave in south west Missouri