It's a beautiful, warm, sunny day — just perfect for painting my new hive and doing an inspection of Apollo and Rocky.
Both hives overwintered nicely and appear to be strong. I did not go into the bottom supers, but did pull some frames from the middle supers to see that the queen was busy laying eggs and the bees had plenty of honey stored around the edges for food.
I have put queen excluders on both hives and honey supers on top of those. (The excluder keeps the queen from making her way up and laying eggs in the honey super.) The workers have made their way up into the honey supers and are building out comb, so I hope this signals lots of sweet honey to come this summer!
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