We had a chance to check on the hive this afternoon. THe hive looks good. Although we did not see the queen (not certain Karen and I know what we are looking for) we saw plenty of eggs, larve and brood. Everything looks very good. On Friday, the hive should start to increase in number as the new bees will start to emerge. Twenty-one days is the lenght of time that it takes for a egg to transform to larve to bee. Six of the eight brood frames, have strong activity - frames 7 and 8 are still inactive. From what I have read this is normal, as the queen works from the inside frame to the outside frames.
No activity on the frames in the honey supers, but this is normal for this stage of the hives development. I expect the comb honey kit to arrive this week. We scraped a small amount of wax from the sides of brood super.
We did clean the top feeder, as some mold had developed in the sugar water. We cleaned the feeder by spraying water on the inside and then refilled it with sugar water. The refill was water and sugar compared to the intial feeding of water and Karyo syrup. Last week I read that sugar is better than Karyo syrup (corn syrup).
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