A Wonderful Day to Share the Bees

On Sunday, May 3, 2015, following a wonderful two days of wedding festivities, I had a chance to take Amanda into the hives.  The bees were very agreeable in the back two hives and the brood pattern in each was promising.  Hive two officially has a laying Queen and she's doing a super job.  Yeah!  Next week we will create a nuc to replace the ill fated #1 hive.  The Queen we purchased and put in this hive a week ago never made it out her cage alive.  Obviously, not a very friendly group of bees in that box.  Yikes!