Honey and Bees — Hive Inspections

Our goal with this series of posts is to take you along as we (my daughter and I) establish two new backyard hives from packages! While we have access to drawn comb, frames of eggs, brood and bees we will not be using them unless absolutely necessary. The bees were installed on 4/9/16 in 10 frame deep boxes with plastic foundation in the frames. We did add extra wax to the foundation to help the bees take to it a bit better. This is not required but seems to help. Our first inspection was on 4/12 and our goals for...