We've seen many more bees doing their orientation flights and we checked the hive yesterday. They had not drawn out any of the new frames so we gave them 5 frames of honey we'd saved from Malka's work.
They were pretty upset in the moment: the pitch and volume of the buzz went up like a guitar solo, the air filled with bees and the landing board looked like a mosh pit, but they were greeting, not fighting. We imagine that suddenly finding their hive smelling Wrong they all rushed around searching for the Wrong Bees they could smell, but for each bee, each other bee they checked was friend, not foe. Things calmed down a bit later.
This morning, the concert is over and under the hive are plenty of neatly removed white cappings, I wonder if they're eating the honey we gave them or checking it in, relabelling and processing it.
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