I did various bits of futtering about with the bees this week. On Monday I checked the strongest colony and it had 7 frames of brood and a lot of bees. I put a shallow in the middle of the brood nest to encourage them to build drone comb below. Out of curiosity, I checked on Wednesday and the shallow was laid up with eggs and they had started to draw drone comb below. The box was bunged with bees and I decided to put a second brood box of drawn comb above and lifted the frame ...
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