with honey also and they are not eating the syrup that i put into the hive. i am hoping that this means that i won’t need to feed them very much this spring and they will find better food that the syrup. it’s so much better if they can fill their hive with nectar than syrup.
these bees had not released the queen yet and they had built comb around the queen cage. i cut the cage out of the comb and removed the other cork. this time i turned the cage so that the queen could walk out into the hive. that is exactly what she did. it was really 