The top floor apartment is going to have a queen! That is not all. This 3 floor apartment is becomeing a 4 floor high rise.
Removing the top to check on the queen.
Paul said there are two queen cells. I can only find one in this picture.
That big yellow thing on the edge of the frame is a queen cell. Give it a week and she should emerge!
Since there are two queen cells. The two queens will fight it out and whoever survives will be the new queen.
The four box hive.
Paul had to add a box to the original hive because the hive is growing. We have enough bees that are making honey for themselves, raising their brood, they are running out of space for honey. If we don’t add another box, the bees will leave and find another home.
What do the separate boxes do?
The bottom two boxes with are brood. They raise their young bees here. They have honey on the outside frames for food for them and their brood is in the frames in the middle of the box.
The block above the second box is the queen excluder so the queen can’t go up there and lay eggs. Only the worker bees can go up there.
The third box (above the queen excluder) is a honey box. For us! Mmmm….tasty honey for us!
The top box, the new addition, is the new queen’s apartment.
Back of the high rise. This little hive is doing well!