Summer is in Full Swing

It was a blistering today in the bee yard, even though we had an early start.  It reached 98 degrees and was sunny and humid.  The hot Texas summer is here.  We haven't had much rain in a couple of weeks and there aren't many flowers for the bees.  That's okay, because the bees have plenty of honey!

All of the hives are doing well and staying very busy.  Click on the photos to enlarge.

Hive 01 with brood, larvae and capped honey.
This is a good pattern with the brood along the bottom
in the light brownish colored cells.
The honey is the yellowish, waxy part of the frame.

Two weeks ago, we installed a new queen in hive 02.
She has escaped her queen cage and should be hard at work laying eggs.
We did not see her, nor did we see new eggs, but we
expect she has settled into the lower deep hive.

Our queen in hive 03 is a rock star. 
Look close to see the new tiny eggs in the cells.

Once again, we saw our queen in hive 04.
She always seems eager to greet us when we visit.

Hive 05 is without a queen.  Maybe she has swarmed.
There are plenty of bees in the hive,
but no eggs, larvae or brood.
We will once again order a new queen.

What a great snapshot of a frame in hive 06.
The yellowish wax along the top of the photo is capped honey.
The light brown "fuzzy" capped cells are pupae soon to hatch.
The cells just above the pupae are uncapped larvae in different stages of development.

Hive 07 has a lot of brood.

We are very proud of our newly installed queen in hive 08.
We added her to the colony two weeks ago. 
Look at all the brood she has created in that short time!
(It takes 21 days for an egg to develop into an adult worker bee.)

I was hoping that we would be lucky enough to add at least a couple of supers to some hives, but the nectar flow is over now.  Overall, we are very excited at the progress our bees have made. 

Parting shot of the hives.