Moving Day For Bees

This is how the brood quarters began, but I have now moved the IL. super up and added a 2nd deep super for brood.

The box is filling.

Waitng and moving.

Started smoking the bees towards the brood box from the far end of the matching splt log.

The log is laying end to end at a slight angle. The pic shows bees from one end of the log all the way to the end of the matching half.

One side of the log cent with the comb removed and covered with bees.

Looking for the queen.

A closer look.

Starting the removal.

A look at the log before removal begins.

A look at the early spring work of the queen.

This is the view of the comb from the top of the maple log.

I am using the power saw along the crack / split from the wedge.

On Thursday, March 19th, it was moving day for the maple log colony. Splitting the twisted maple log was still hard even though it had split some from drying.