Again, thanks for sharing your experiences and info. It’s really priceless.Based on what you said, it sounds like the bees are clustering towards the front, they look like they are just guarding the entrance.
The queen is probably somewhere on the second bar and the bees will probably move the queen to the center of the hive eventually. Although not always, I had a hive in which the queen lived in the the back of the hive for two years.
I would leave it alone for a little while, I think I usually wait about a week after removing the queen cage to do any inspections, almost definitely everything is fine and you're right, it has been a bit cold and they are probably just starting to build comb.
When there is comb, look in the bottom of the cells for eggs, they are hard to see at first, they look like a grain of sand attached ideally in the center of bottom of the cell.
I watch that guys videos, he's got some good information. The rotting meat part sounds disgusting but you can't argue with results.This came up on my feed and I thought of this thread
I don't have enough imagination ever having the confidence of this guy to do this video in sandals and not suited up.
You can reattach comb to the bar with small twine, if a comb breaks off that you didn't want to break off. The bees will reattach the comb to the bar if you can hold the comb in place with something.Last week I opened the hive to check things out. I noticed they started to make two different combs on the same bar. I broke the smaller one off and tried to straighten the bigger one. Well it broke.
Pulled a few nice bars up. Put them back and closed it up.
Nice looking queenToday I thought what the hell. I need to check things out. Brought my phone out this time.
Hell ya
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