Brood!!

I inspected the hives for the third time today. I've been out of town for a week and it had been rainy and cold before I left, so it has been longer than I would have liked. I was worried that the queens might not be laying since I didn't see any capped brood during my last inspection. However, this time both of the hives have lovely capped brood in the bottom hive body. It appears to be mostly worker brood. Neither hive seems very interested in the second hive body that I put on last time, although Droogie 2 has drawn out a couple frames in it.

It was also interesting to see some burr comb in between the two supers in Droogie 2, which has foundation. I haven't seen any burr comb in Droogie 1, which is using foundationless frames. I wonder if the bees in Droogie 2 need someplace to put drone comb because the foundation isn't the right size for it? Or maybe they just inspired to make some comb from scratch.

Because both hives have begun building comb in the second hive body but I did not see evidence of the queen having moved up there, I moved a couple frames of brood up into that chamber. Hopefully this will signal to the queen that she has free reign in the second level as well. I'm not sure if moving brood frames is a good idea, but I read on one of the forums that this might be helpful. It seems that for everyone who says something is a good idea, there are 10 other beekeepers who will disagree with them for one reason or another.