This photo shows the colony making new comb. The frame has been added to the hive with the foundation broken off so that it is only a few cm long. This will encourage the formation of drone brood - which can be used either to take drones off into breeding apiaries or, more likely, to provide a test for varroa mite. I will say more, with photos, in another blog.
You can see the bees hanging in chains to make the comb - which explains (partly) why the comb ends up in the beautiful catenary shapes (from catena - a chain).
Bee scaffolding. More bees join the chain gang (sorry).
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