The overall mission today was to dust the hives with confectionary sugar to try to knock off the mites from the bees.
Purple/Aubergine: Of the two supers, the newer one (medium) had some frames being drawn, but no honey yet. The shallow which has been on longer had honey.
The drone frame had capped drones so I cut out the drone combs for the chickens. Sugar dusted the hive.
Sage: The new super not being drawn and there appears to be an odd yellow stain on the top bars. The old super has a few capped cells of honey. The drone frame had no comb at all. Sugar dusted.
Dark Green (Holly?): No supers. Drone frame untouched.
Only saw capped brood, no uncapped brood. The unoccupied cells seemed to be filling up with honey. Found some swarm cells, so this was probably the source of the swarm. Sugar dusted.
Blue (Wode?): New honey going in. Some brood in core. Lots of pollen coming in. Sugar dusted.
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