John and I inspected the hives on 5/7/2011. The first hive appeared to be doing fine, we pulled a few frames and saw honey cells and brood, the bees still have a few empty foundation frames to build on. When we removed the top cover on the second hive we could see that the bees had built comb on top of some frames and connected to the inner cover.
We carefully removed the inner cover and cut/scraped away the extra comb. The bees in this hive are ready for a second hive body, they have almost completely built out the first hive body.
John and I wore protective clothing but the bees were really gentle. We used Dad's old smoker.
Warning: pictures are large, about 3 MB each.
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