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Have you given enough room to your bees?
How full nectar are your combs?
Have you inspected queen cells?
What kind of carpet of bees covers combs?
Have you extracted capped honey?
Have you given enough room to your bees? - I have added supers to all that have drawn comb out on 8 of the 10 deep or medium frames. I believe they have enough room given they have not filled the comb with honey and in some cases have not drawn out the frames completely
How full nectar are your combs? - They are getting relatively full and are starting to become capped
Have you inspected queen cells? - Yes I have done inspections and have not found any queen cells.
What kind of carpet of bees covers combs? There are a lot of bees covering the frames of comb. In most cases the bees are 75% covering over half of the frames. In the few others there are less bees however several frames in each box full of bees.
Have you extracted capped honey? - I have not extracted any honey as of yet. I have been adding supers. Only two of the 8 hives have now 2 supers - the others are either not full enough yet or in one case they have not nearly enough bees to justify adding a super.
The bees don't seem to be crowded however there seems to be a lot of young bees that are not yet ready to forage and are just hanging out on the side of the box. This is at all times of day. The pics I attached were taken a few moments prior to posting the question.
David