7-18-2018 Hive Inspection

Hive Inspection!  Time to see how they did on their treatment.  It's two days early, but it was close enough.

Asgard

This was the hive we were worried about.  Last inspection, we had a queen cell.  Diving right in, we found her in the top body box.  Hurray!  We had all stages of bee life cycle (eggs, larvae and capped bees).  Find the queen:

Our queen has the yellow dot.

Boy are they *hot* though!  We are hoping they calm down now that we removed the mite treatment strips...

Wakanda

Everyone was happy.  All stages of the bee life cycles and easily found our queen also in the top body box.  Here she was:

Our queen has the yellow dot.

Grass Mowing

I thought I'd end this discussion with the topic on grass mowing.  If you like clover honey ... your most common summer honey ... don't mow so often!  We can sit on our back patio and watch the bees work the clover: