Thursday afternoon, Mr. Ellis and Jess (my favorite beekeepers) came over and we opened all the hives. Our fall inspection - we might do one more in 3-4 weeks but everything looked really good. All the hives had lots of brood and bees. Couple of minor changes - put a super on #6 from #4 - they had 3 supers and two brood boxes so moved the top super over to #6 and that gives them more food for the winter. Also in #4, we took 4 frames with brood from the Swarm Hive and put in the second brood box. There were several frames that had nothing on them. Nuc #3, Nuc #1 and Nuc #4 - no changes were made. In the Swarm Hive, we took off the top brood box - they were working but only 4 frames had any honey or brood so they were moved to #6.
It was great to have help and made quick work of checking the hives. The bees are bringing in lots of pollen - goldenrod and aster. I don't know what else but they are really busy.
