Couple of weeks in

We inspected the Daphne hive and they seem to be doing very well.  Here is a frame with brood on it.

The center area is capped brood.  Each cell will produce a new worker this coming week.  There are about 1000 in this picture.  The worker will emerge and start working immediately.  The queen will lay about 1500 eggs each day which will turn into worker bees 21 days later.  So our hive will increase from about 25K bees to about 60K in the next 6 weeks.  So we may get honey from this hive this year!