Looking for 2008-B Queen

Didn't get a chance to open the hive over the weekend so made an adventure of it after work.

First things first, I noticed the queen had gotten out of her cage. After removing her cage I had to remove all the wonderful comb they had built in the wide space between the frames where the cage was hanging.

Not knowing what else to do with it I put it on a table directly in front of their hive hoping they could steal some of the nectar and/or pollen back. (Every time I looked at it over the next week there were bees on it. After the comb starting melting onto the table I pulled it all and froze it.)

Having no other personal comparison than Hive A, it seems this hive has been very productive. The aforementioned comb would constitute an entire frame and there were four other frames that were almost half full of comb---most of it being filled with pollen.

I did find B-Queen and she's already laying!

Everything got sticky after handling all that comb. Hopefully this will be the last time I forgot my rubbing alcohol sprayer as I was too messy to take pictures of the rest of the work.

I opened 2008-A to put a Small Hive Beetle trap frame in place of one of the frames not drawn out yet.