our hives!

We have five bee hives.  They are all in the first year.
The first one here I refer to as the "swarm-trap hive" because that was its original purpose.  My friend Forrest caught a swam in a cardboard box.  I decided to put it in the swarm-trap and see how it would do if I left it in there.

This next hive I refer to as the "Blue Ribbon Hive".  I installed a package from the "Fat Bee Man" into this hive at the very end of winter.

This hive I refer to as the "Heart Hive" or "Queenie".  This is because when I installed the package this winter, the queen was DOA.  The Fat Bee Man's son graciously sent me a replacement queen.

This one I call the "spiral hive".  This hive is kind of a Frankenstein.  In late April I installed a Langstroth nuc into this hive, but it isn't a langstroth hive.  So the first half of the hive are the typical Langstroth frames and the second half of the hive are "deep" foundation less frames.

This one I call the "short-cut hive".  It is because of the way I made it.  I was running out of time the day before I had to pick up the nucs from Blue Ridge.  So ended up gluing the three main sections together, skipping the support pieces I included in the "spiral hive".  So far so good!  It is way "bearding" now.