4-28-2013 Honey Super check/Hive reversal

Went down to check on the hives again.  Hive A has STILL NOT drawn out any comb in the honey super.  There were quite a few bees up there, but no drawn comb!  I probably need to do some more reading on how to get the bees working on drawing out this comb.  I did note that several of the frames in the bottom box appeared to either be empty, or have very small eggs in the frames.  I'm hoping maybe it's just still early in the nectar flow and they will eventually move up.  I tried doing a hive body reversal to see if that would do any good.

Hive B was in similar shape, although I noted the bees were doing a pretty good job finishing the outside frames in the top box.  I reversed the hive bodies on this  hive as well and added a honey super "just in case".

4-13-2013 Hive Check

We were down in Va Beach for an indoor rock climbing competition and decided to swing by Beachland for a check of the hives.  Not too much to report... it was windy so I didn't want to keep the hives open too long.  Hive B appeared to be doing ok, but there were reports that the bees were "hanging out on the front porch"... So we removed the bottom board to expose the screened bottom for more ventilation.  The hive B bees still hadn't filled out the top super, so no super was added to this hive.

Hive A bees were making their way to the honey super, but had not yet started drawing out the comb in that box.?  Maybe there still are not enough bees to really get started on this, or maybe it's still not quite warm enough?  This was similar to what happened last year.  I did not reverse the hive bodies this time as an experiment.  I'll probably need to try to read up on how to "encourage" the bees up into the honey super.