July 15, 2014: The hive got bigger today! We added another super!
After much consideration, I decided to "bottom super"--so, in the photo above, the top chamber is the already-full-but-not-yet-capped honey super, and the second down is the new, empty super. Then a queen excluder, then the two hive body deeps, which are full of bees and brood and pollen and honey.
I sprayed the new foundation with 2:1 (water:sugar) sugar syrup. That seemed to help with the first super I put on, to encourage the bees to go through the queen excluder and start working on drawing out the foundation. I assume that it will work again, along with the strong attraction of the honey sitting up there in the top super.
Our field is full of flowers, too!
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