📝 Super calm bees at Day 63! All 8 bottom frames healthy with loads of capped brood. Queen found on Frame 2 below the excluder. Nectar flow is on! Bees sealing Flow super cell gaps with wax, getting ready to store nectar. Will pull Flow frames next inspection July 6th!

📝 Found bottom box was sugar water bound — stopped all feeding! Medium 2nd box barely touched after 18 days, decided to switch to Flow super. Found queen on Frame 7 with faded white mark. June 23rd installed queen excluder and Flow super with wax-painted frames. Bees started working within minutes! By June 24th already closing cell gaps. Honey season begins! 🍯

📝 Bees doing great at Day 51! All 8 bottom box frames healthy. Witnessed waggle dance on Frame 8. Quick peek at box 2 showed fresh comb being drawn. Surprise find — the queen was spotted on the middle frame of box 2! She had a tiny bit of paint on her wings from last week but looks perfectly healthy. Next full inspection June 22!

📝 Best inspection yet! Found and marked the queen on Frame 7 with white paint, the official 2026 color. Second box is fully drawn on all frames. Bottom box full of healthy bees. Bees were super calm with no head butting. Continuing 1:1 sugar water feeding. Next check June 17!

📝 Colony thriving at Day 37! All 8 frames inspected, more brood on every frame. Found practice queen cups, no larvae inside. Lots of pollen on Frame 8. Added 2nd box on June 4th with pollen patty bridge. Also got my first sting — lesson learned about bare hands and suit scent! 🐝

📝 Bees were super calm, queen spotted on Frame 2 laying beautifully on the new center frames. New brood visible, honey bound issue almost fully corrected. Destroyed practice queen cells. Light 1:1 sugar top-up. Next week, clean frame edges and add box 2!

📝 QUEEN SPOTTED for the first time on Frame 4 center right! Rotated frames 2 and 6 to center to give her more laying space. Supercedure cups from last week were a false alarm, completely gone. Colony correction is working!