Cheese Palace

Cheese Palace was founded via a split of Boatmurdered in 2012.  The hive has so far given me no queen troubles and has been the most productive hive so far.  I made the split the last weekend of March 2012 with 2 frames of brood, 2 of honey and 1 of pollen (roughly speaking) and the hive has just exploded.  In the first 3 months this hive was set up it filled out 19 deep frames and 30 medium frames with wax, and filled several frames of the brood nest and 4 medium supers full of honey.  While my most productive hive, it is also the hive with the touchiest bees.  The hive is fine to approach if you are not manipulating it, but I have been stung before just removing the inner cover and after lightly smoking the hive.  I like to check my bees with no equipment  except a veil, unless doing major manipulation, but for this hive I need to suit up for even basic inspections.  The first and so far only queen of this hive is Queen Bee Mary T the First, forever may she reign.. ok, forever until at least the end of the 2013 season.