Billy's Bees

Busy day here yesterday, I pulled the bottom boards out of both hives. The package hive has just a slide in mite check board, but the swarm hive has a pull out tray. I opened both hives to increase ventilation. When I pulled the tray out of the swarm hive, it was full of ants. The big black ones build a brood nest at the bottom of my hive. I can't see into the package hive do to the type of board, but I bet they are there to. I will be thinking about what to do about ants for the next couple of days. The 4 green drone comb frames I ordered arrived yesterday. They are part of a "Integrated Pest Management program" for varroa mites. I decided to added a drone frame to each hive and add the second brood box to the swarm hive. I numbered the frames 1-4. Frame #1 is in the bottom box of the package hive. Frame #2 is in the bottom box of the swarm hive. Frames #3 & #4 are on the shelf for latter. Patty and I were wiring up more frames last night, but ran out of wire. Need to get a spool this weekend. May need frames for a honey super soon.