Reversed the 2 bottom boxes (both with Pierco plastic frames), and put our first honey super on (with Pierco plastic frames, white). No more feeding. Took the entrance reducer off. Everything is looking good. Lots of brood. Capped honey. No swarm or supercedure cells.
I hated to mess with them, but I knew I needed to learn from them. I can't see through the boxes so I torn their world apart and put it back together.
I don't really care about getting honey for ourselves this year. I just didn't want to go on vacation and leave them with no room. The top two boxes were at least 80% drawn out. The bottom box was only 70%. Now it is the middle box so I hope they start drawing it out more.
At any rate, I think they should have enough to get by until we get back from vacation.
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