I decided to give the hives at my satellite yard some attention and add drone frames to them. I did not need to remove any frames as I was short of frames when I set them up so I had only placed 9 frames instead of 10 into the top box. However, this led to Goldenrod building a mass of burr comb in the the empty space where the 10th frame would be. I had to use my hive tool to separate it from the wall and then fish it out… sort of like the game ‘Operation’.
My father pointed out that there was a dead elm branch leaning over the hives that would need to be removed.
It was also very obvious that Goldenrod has many more bees than Hodgepodge.
Back in my main yard I noticed that some ants have set up home on top of the inner cover of Sage. With all the rain we have been having, their holes have probably flooded.
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