Today we checked the bees between 11:30 and 12:00. It was sunny and 70 degrees. The bees seemed happy and weren't bearding as much as hotter days!
Today we really just looked. It had been a little while as I was out of town on a road trip for 10 days. We decided not to take out any full frames as there were still some empty frames in the boxes from our last visit, so there is still room for them to build more comb and finish filling & capping other cells.
We're going to leave them "bee" now until late August, when we'll start pulling off full frames, do a mite check and mite treatment, and then give them time to really fill up those deeps for winter food stores!
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