Suzanne and I went through the hives last friday and in Connie hive we found the queen on the crown board but the brood box full of honey stores. Action -to make up a super and put it on this hive as soon as possible.
In Beatrice hive we found eggs although this is a very small nucleus sized colony.
In Adele hive we found bees and honey but no eggs and no queen. Action we took a frame of eggs from Beatrice and placed it in Adele. Felt terrible though since Beatrice is now such a small colony.
Next day put a super and queen excluder on Connie hive.
Yesterday I quickly looked in Adele hive - I wanted to check if a queen cell had been made on the frame of eggs we had put in there. It hadnt although bees had made a few queen cups. But there were eggs on more than one frame so there must have been a queen in there after all. Action to take a frame of brood to put in Beatrice hive to replace eggs that were removed. More than one if it can be spared.
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