Here’s a bee update for you all. First off, thanks to several of you for your name submissions. We settled on Priscilla and Aretha for our two royal ladies. And both are doing a great job at working at their hives. Pretty much, if you have a healthy working queen, you have a healthy working hive. So, so far so good.
Each week we open the hives up to take a look at the status of things inside. We’re looking for several things. First, we want to make sure they have enough room to work in (so they’re not building honey comb in random places, called burr comb), but that they’re also cozy enough (so they’re not building burr comb).
Second, we want to see all stages and types of food. They need pollen packed in lots of cells for the protein in their diet during the winter. You can see lots of it in the picture above. If you click on the picture and look closely, you can also see all the different colors of pollen from all the different flowers they’ve been to. They also need honey for their carbohydrates. There should be cells shimmering with liquid, still getting filled up, and there should be capped honey cells, like the white stuff in the picture above, stored for winter.
Magrilless 
I am so glad you posted about the bees. I have been wondering. They look huge!
So fun!!!