This post comes a little late, since I have done a few things since my last post. On the 2nd of April, I moved all the bees from the old hive bodies from my mentor to my own hive bodies. The move was for the most part quick and easy. My focus was to be sure to place the frames in the hives so that the brood nest was in the center of the hive body. Doing this ensures that bees will be expanding toward the outer edges. If the brood nest is not centered, the bees may go into early swarm behavior as they do not like to go over the edges of the food frames. I also removed a few older frames that were too short for my hive bodies and replaced them with wax foundations or with drawn-out comb. On the 15th of April, I decided to expand all the hives by giving each a second brood chamber. The weather from the time I moved them in to the time I expanded the hive was quite pleasant for April. The cherry blossoms were appearing, which is the time to expand. At this point, I had decided to just gi...