Moving the false back.

Our bees adjusted pretty quickly to their new home. The workers congregated as a massive 'bee ball' around the queen at the back of the hive. After a couple of days we moved the moveable false back partition towards the middle of the hive. The bees were already building comb. The idea is to have the bees establish their brood comb, pollen and initial honey stores in the front half of the hive. The false back will be moved to the rear when the front half of the hive is full of comb. This will then allow the bees to use the back of the hive for excess honey stores.

You can see that we've moved the false back mid way in these two videos.

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Hive established after moving the false back.