It was time for another inspection, and ventilation, and an addition.
We've noticed a lot of Bearding at night. There must be nearly 3 lbs of bees on the front and under side of the hive. It has been hot, but I also think the hive is out of room and when all the workers come home, there is no where for them to go in the Hot box. So I added a spacer at the top to provide some ventilation over then next few weeks, until the temps get out of the 90s. I also added another Brood Box to give them more space. And while in there, I added Mite away strips as some preventative maintenance for the hive.
Once I opened things up I noticed they have honey filled honey comb almost closing off the large vent hole in the inner cover. I also notice there are A LOT of bees. I mean a lot!
I am not going to lye, I was intimidated, so this was a very short inspection.
I didn't get stung, but there were just to many and I didn't want to make things worse. So I thought in another few weeks, I can go back in and to remove the remnants of the Mite treatment and see how they've spread out. Hopefully I can get frames out and see how the Queen is doing.
I was also surprised that in 7 weeks, they have nearly filled the Honey Super and seemed to be looking for more room. You can see two frames of nearly full capped honey from the outer two frames in the super. And looking down in they others looked full too. They were alsoconnected to the frames below in the original brood box.