Grandson and I did our second inspection of the Nicholas Hive today. Things looked great. The second brood box is now full of new capped brood with honey at the top and sides for store. Bottom box still has honey and the bees are now cleaning those cells for new eggs to be laid in. The top brood box is seven tenths drawn out with new bees and larva. We added a queen excluder and our first honey super. You would think we would have found the queen in the top box where there was new eggs,instead she was running around on a frame in the second box.I would go to show her to grandson and she would run down the frame under the frame to the other side,I would turn the frame over and she would do the same thing.We played this game three times with the same results.I think we set our hives behind when we open them for inspection. One the light has to be tough when they are always working in the dark and second we give them the appearence of their house on fire when we use smoke. I may be thinking this thing to much and she may have just been heading down to first brood box to start laying again.
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