With last year's hive up North in Akron failing due to mites and beekeeper ignorance, we're giving it another try. The package was installed in one 8-frame medium with drawn comb last Monday, April 15. Today Cora, under my supervision, opened up the hive for her first time so we could remove the queen cage and verify she is laying.
These bees are grouchy! I don't know if it's because there were two of us, or that Cora was puffing the smoker a bit vigorously or what, but I had bees bonking the veil and buzzing around the neck area. Now fun!
The good news is, we saw a few eggs and some very young larvae. We also saw the queen! It looks like she only started laying a couple of days ago at the most, as most of the larvae we saw were very small and swimming in royal jelly.
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