OK, after a few days, you want to make sure your bees are happy and healthy.  First you check to make sure the queen is out of her cage.  This picture was taken with her still in it.



And this one was taken long after I'd confirmed her release, but I built the cage bar so the cage could remain in place.  Clearly she made it out OK.  Notice the bottom "hole" no longer contains the candy plug.



After a few days, you want to make sure you are queenright.  That means you have a laying queen, not one who's defective, or been dethroned.  You look for eggs, larvae, or capped brood.  I can only see the capped brood, but in the Close up of honey comb you can see quite a bit more.



Note the expensive bee suit and the smoker.  Where is my smoker?  I think it will make a nice flower pot.  I'd better get you a better picture, though.



OK!  We have capped brood and pollen and all kinds of nice things going on here.  I close up the hive and check on the feeders in the back of the hive.  This is one of those fancy expensive Italian feeders for Italian bees.  Notice my fine and carefully laid out pattern.  You need exactly however many holes you think is right before there are too many.



The feeders are full of sugar water.  I make it by putting five pounds of sugar in a one gallon jug, then filling the jug with hot tap water.  Two scraps of wood complete the feeder.  You just need enough space for the bees to get under it.  They drink right out of the holes, often don't notice that they've been lifted out of the hive and turned right-side-up.



While I have the back open, time to take some more pictures.  This is hive #2.  They are careful builders, but slow.



This is hive three.  They build wax like mad, but they never finish a bar.  Note the gap down the side.