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Jason Buchanan <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 15 Jun 2003 20:27:00 -0400
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I opened my hives today for the first time in 3 weeks and discovered the
beginnings of a mess at the bottom...

Along 2 frames on the bottom super the colony decided to set up a drone
farm.  I didn't feel too bad about disposing of it given that it was all
capped drone cells but was wondering if this was typical when the colony
is given plasticell to work with throughout the hive.


I was quite surprised to see how quickly the colony had drawn out half
of the hive body above which I added on the 28th of May.  When I lifted
the 2nd body I noticed it was quite heavy which surprised me.


I swapped the drawn frames with the undrawn frames to coax them into
filling out all 10 frames in each body.  The weather this week and the
next is supposed to be quite nice.  I refilled the gallon syrup jar and
gave them a new beepro patty to munch on so they should be happy with
this arrangement.

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