I removed the third super which I put on about a month ago to be sure the hive wouldn’t swarm. I knew it was mostly empty. The next two boxes should have been full, but they were light coming off. One weighed 31# and the other 35#. I pulled out some frames and I found most of them had a little bit of capped honey in the top corners and the rest of the cells were empty. Frame after frame.

The frames on the ends (frame 1 and frame 10) in both boxes were almost fully capped, so I really believe that these were all capped a few weeks ago.

I am pretty sure that these all had honey in them three or four weeks ago.

Below these supers are three medium brood boxes. I decided to dig into these to see what was there. I don’t usually do this. I kind of leave things alone and don’t like to disturb the brood area. I found a few frames with capped brood, but not much else. I don’t think there is a laying queen in the hive. Maybe this was the hive that swarmed two weeks ago, but I still doubt that they would have collected on the side of a different hive.

Shit. Shit. Shit. Pardon my French. I guess this proves that it was really ever my honey in the first place.