When I inspected Alpha today I went directly to the bottom brood box. Not a sign of wax moths! I think I may have saved it. The number of bees seems to be down. But I saw some brood and more importantly, eggs. This is the first time I have ever spotted eggs. They are small.
The bees have done nothing to the four frames I put in last week. There seems to be plenty of honey and pollen for them. I saw a two acorn cells. There are still small hive beetles in the hive.
I added a spacer above the top box so that I could put a Sonny-Mel SHB trap on the hive. Above that I put a hive top feeder with a gallon of 1:1 sugar syrup. I'm not sure that they need feeding, but I'm hoping it might get them to increase their brood.
I also opened up Beta. It's looking great. Plenty of stores, no unwanted bugs, and lots of bees. I took the supers off because they had not done anything to them. I didn't see any eggs but then the light was failing. Beta always gets short changed when I do my inspections. Next time I will start with Beta first. I added a trap just like I did on Alpha. I didn't feed them because they seem to have plenty of food.
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