Eggs!

I went into the hive today and saw lots of eggs and brood. The eggs are tiny white specs in the bottom of each cell. They are kind of hard to see in this photo but this entire frame was full of eggs, brood, pollen and honey. 


Wikipedia had a good description of the life cycle of the bees: The queen lays eggs singly in cells of the comb. Larvae hatch from eggs in three to four days. They are then fed by worker bees and develop through several stages in the cells. Cells are capped by worker bees when the larva pupates. Queens and drones are larger than workers and so require larger cells to develop.


Since most frames were either completely drawn out or well on their way, I added a shallow hive body for them to start building out. Each foundation got a shower of sugar water to encourage the bees to start drawing out the comb.