Just an update on our bee swarm - the bees that we managed to scoop back into our hive the day after they decided to leave decided to leave once more. Apparently they took a portion of the workers from the hive that remained, as an inspection last week showed that the queen was indeed laying, but the numbers were nowhere near the 10,000 bees that came out of the package the day we installed it - perhaps 2-3,000. They're also building across the bars and up the sides of the hive body with fragile comb, making inspection difficult and correction of their mess too risky. I will be going back in this coming weekend, to see how disruptive my last inspection was, and to try and remove some of the poorly build comb in the hopes that they will build again. Better a cross-comb hive of honeybees than no honeybees.
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