Inspection Hive #2

[Jen]

A couple of questions please    Checking this hive to see if the middle deep is getting drawn out. It Is! 


Configuration of this hive from bottom to top

medium: chalk full of honey
medium: fully pulled with wax, but only a hand size amount of nectar in center of every frame
Deep: Queen spotted, larvae of several sizes, but no eggs. Each frame has capped brood, some alot and tight, some not so much.
           One frame only of drone brood on both sides.

This middle medium/nectar hasn't changed appearance for 2 weeks. Is it because the queen won't lay 'around this nectar? Should I put on another medium with fresh frames under this nectar medium?
Then the configuration would be:
 
Medium honey
Medium w/nectar only,
Medium new,
Deep with brood,


Frame of drone brood

[apisbees]

No to adding another super at this time, there is very little nectar coming into the hive to support the extra needed space. Is this the hive you posted and asked about how to configure a couple of weeks back? Nothing has changed.

[Perry]

That's a lot of drone brood! 

[LazyBkpr]

  That nectar looks like someone nearby has a leaking hummingbird feeder. I wouldnt steal that to eat.. make sure to use it for feed.
   You can also rinse it out gently with water rather than replacing the entire frame..  I have found similar in hives before, it does not seem to harm the bees.
   I have a couple hives that insist on that much drone brood..  I have even tried to give them a frame of Plll...   Pllllll.....      astic     and they ignored the cells and built drone brood again...

[Jen]

Apis- "No to adding another super at this time, there is very little nectar coming into the hive to support the extra needed space. Is this the hive you posted and asked about how to configure a couple of weeks back? Nothing has changed.
   
    Okay. And yes it is the same hive, nothing has changed. We have been upto and above 100 degrees now for about 3 weeks tho ~

[apisbees]

the good news is that they are holding their own the red honey has neither expanded or shrunk. so they are finding what they are consuming or you are feeding them so they are remaining stable

[Jen]

   That's Ma Gurls!

    What's funny is this is the only hive I 'haven't' been feeding! Since the swarms it took off like a bullet and filled the bottom deep quickly, and then pulled wax on the middle medium quickly. Now nothing. But I was seeing what you said anyway, that they are surviving well. Starting to analyze on my own more now, and learning about long dearths as well.

This week we have 80's weather, pure bliss, then next week back to 100's. Crazy hot summer for us here in Cali.

I do believe I'll start a three hole jar on this hive, might as well, they'll need the energy with all the fanning coming up.

[Jen]

Scott- "That nectar looks like someone nearby has a leaking hummingbird feeder.



Well that confirms it! A beek friend of mine was visiting a house a few blocks from mine, he noticed his friends hummingbird feeder was covered in bees. I just asked him a few minutes ago if the feeder had red sugar syrup in it and he confirmed "Yes!"

Good call Scott 

[LazyBkpr]

I got a call/complaint last year that "my" bees were taking all the syrup from a lady's hummingbird feeder in town, about 1/4 mile from my house, so I went over, and showed her how to tighten it and stop it from leaking.. showed her the bees collecting the dripping syrup on the ground etc.. Also showed her how docile the bees were on the feeder..   Within a couple days the bees stopped visiting her feeder..    Most hummingbird feeders are too deep for a bee to reach into, and if properly used will not draw bees, but if they leak a little.. wow!