Remember this hive?
This was the one that I caught in the trap box
and they've been in here for about a month
maybe a month and a half, I have to check my dates
but they are running out of room
A lot of new beekeepers see this bearding on the front of the hive
and they think the hive is getting ready to swarm.
But today was a hot day
it got to about 88 degrees Fahrenheit.
It's about 6:45 at night right now and the temperature is 87 degrees.
And they come outside when they're overcrowded and it's hot inside to help cool off the hive.
So they have no where to go they just kind of hang out on the front, it's called bearding.
They're even clustering underneath the hive right under here.
So I'm going to give them some more space by giving them 10-frame boxes
instead of these little 5-frame boxes.
I'm going to keep the frames in the same order, I'm just going to go 5 on the bottom
5 on the top and put the ones from 5 on the bottom in the bottom box
5 from the top in the top box, right in the middle
So I've got to get down into the bottom box first.
Of course there's bees there.
And they haven't started building here yet.
So I don't think they were running out of room, I think it was just poor ventilation in this nuc box
since there's no comb on this bottom part.
I'm going to move this...I brought 3 frames of some drawn comb
I'm going to actually move those to the middle.
Since these bottom ones aren't drawn out yet.
All 5 of these frames are drawn out
so I'm going to put them in the same order I got them out.
Well they seem to be abandoning the old boxes now
I'm just going to close it up and Queen Louise is set to go.