I need to go back out and double check one of my hives, it was one that was way ahead of the other, added a 2nd deep to it when I had 7-8 frames filled (10 frame), they went to town on the second deep, then added a medium super to it once that one hit about 80% and they are drawing that out... got back from canada and the 2nd hive had caught up to the first one as far as activity and bee numbers. So... I checked them both and they are looking good but the first one had a couple of supersedure cells (was told that may be normal for russian/hybrids) anyways they weren't empty so i took them out... I didnt see the queen but at the time wasnt spending to much time looking for her as she had been laying and there was both capped and uncapped brood. I have a slight concern that she may have jumped ship and took some bees with her....?? I may have buggered that one up if they had gone queenless by smashing the cells.
another thing .. I added deeps and supers when they roughly hit 80% drawn out frames, in going back and checking each lower box what I found is that once I added the next one they just moved up to that next one and have not filled out the remaining frames in the lower boxes... Im going to assume they will go back down and keep drawing them out as the hive grows. Any thoughts, so new to this and there is really so much to learn.
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