 We're gonna do a little hive inspection here like to take you through it first thing I want you to notice is that you work the bees not from the front of the hive But either from the back or the side and the reason for that is that you don't want to disturb The flow of the bees you know in they're getting their flight path where they're going in and out of hive as you can see All the bees are going in a hive So what I want to do first of all and this is kind of optional, but do a few puffs of smoke right on the front of the hive And your smokers should be lit and your smoke should be cool and then I want to go ahead and pry the cover off This is what they call a migratory cover so and Then I want to give a couple of puffs of smoke in there And you close it and you wait a few seconds So now we're going to go ahead and open up the hive We're gonna set our cover on the side there and we're going to take and take a look at a few of the frames I like to kind of pull the outside frame first I'm going to go ahead and give a little not a little puff of smoke here just a little bit and You can tell the bees get getting a message because they're going ahead and the Volume on the hive is ramping up a little bit. So here we're going to pull this frame here now typically You know your bottom ones are going to be supers. This is a frame of capped honey This is ripe and ready for extracting. You can see it's just totally capped. It's beautiful you know and This box here is completely full of honey It's mid-april right here and This honey is ready for extracting. So when you take up box off What you're going to do is you're going to kind of lift it up a little bit Break it free when we break it free on this side and then you're going to twist it and you lift it off and that's pretty heavy and I'm going to go ahead and put it on the box. So let's go ahead and Actually, let's pull out one of the center frames this time I like this J hook hive tool because it allows me To get in there and lift the frame up. So I lift that frame up grab it with my finger Lift this one and pull straight up in this frame. You can see some cap brood And it's really hard to see but there's some uncapped larvae in there as well So this hive is in pretty good shape. So we're going to go ahead and put this box back on I'm going to put it on an angle Try and brush the bees off so I don't smash any and then turn it line it up put the cover on And that's how it is good to go