Today I opened Bermuda to transfer the honey filled frames from the dead hive to it. I was pleased to see what looked like more bees in the hive just five days after checking on Wednesday. I replaced two empty frames with honey-filled ones. See my Wednesday, 2/28 post and you'll see that there are about twice as many bees on the tops of the frames today as there were on Wednesday - Hooray!
I then took the empty super off of the hive. There was some honey in it and some bees so I left it standing in front of Bermuda so that the bees could get the honey and return themselves to the hive. I left the one frame leaning against the shallow super - mostly because I couldn't find my hive tool today (note to self: BUY A SPARE ONE for these occasions) and it was hard to pry out the frames with a screwdriver! If the bees don't take the honey out of it by tomorrow, I'll put it in the freezer.
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