Day 6: Bees in the morning

Hive inspections:
Went into the top-bar hives again today. I came later in the morning while the others were doing hive inspections. I saw some pretty cool things! I saw a bee pulling a newborn out of the cell. I saw a bee that was white becuase it was covered in coconut pollen. I like pulling that bars apart and seeing the bees all strung together. There was one hive that was producing capped honey and had plenty of food. Most of the others had barely enough food and will need to be fed. I am going to learn about how they do the feeding a different day.
Hive location:
They were thinking of physically switching two of the hive locations with each other. It seems difficult to move them becuase they are five feet long. Apparently others do it with a truck bed (from the Les Crowder book). It will be interesting once we actually do it.
Nuke prep:
Taylor, Kwao and I went back in to check out the Langstroth hives (with more protection on). We were looking for bars with food on them to put into another weaker top-bar. We selected three bars and put them in the top box for when we do the transfer later. The Langstroth hives (there are 5 of them) are there for breeding. Most of the frames do not have foundation, and some have bars that will go into top-bar hives later. I am looking forward to learning more about the process of transferring bars. As a part of the usual inspection of each frame, we take a knife to cut off irregular comb that is in the way as well as unnecessary queen cells. We had to go in early becuase it got way too hot.
Transferring:
Agape and I went in again after lunch and took the three bars to transfer into the breeding nuke.  The hive was a different design and slightly wider; the top bars barely fit.