May 20 Spent my Wedding Anniversary with the Bees!

What a difference four days make! Yes, temps in the eighties. I'm loving it and so are the honeybees.  OK, we did plenty of work tonight with the bees, so I'll try to make it short and to the point.

-Opened top box of original hive and found the bees had already begun drawing out a good amount of comb.  We found the queen in the upper box (she may have scurried up there when we smoked the entrance)
-We took this box with the original queen in it and placed it on a new bottom board on the same pallet, but facing a different direction. I have picture of the queen, but it is a little out of focus.
-We added another frame of brood to this box
-Added two shakes of bees into this box and placed inner and outer cover
-Reduced the entrance
-Fed sugar syrup with quart above in empty hive box.

So that makes split number two!!

The bees drawing out new comb on black foundation. 

The queen, light tan solid color in about the middle of picture. Sorry it is blurry.

Now for the bottom deep of the original hive...
-Notched four frames that had the right age (36 hour larvae) this type of cell almost looks like a little white letter C, floating in cloudy fluid. It can't be older than this or the bees will not build a queen cell there.
-Scratched a frame of honey for feed
-When all said and done this box had three new frames of foundation and six of the original frames.
The hope again here is that the bees will build queen cells where notches were made.  However, this is older comb and the notching works better on newer comb. So, we will have to wait 7-10 days to see if the queen cells are built there or not.

Notching with the hive tool,  the bottom 1/3 of the cell wall to the foundation.