Olea's got two more bars. First I had to cut some comb to remove the last bar. There was honey and some cross-combing to the adjacent bar. I put an empty bar between each of the two bars at the end and turned the last one (with the honey and cross-combing) 180 degrees. Olea's seems to be thriving and most likely will give a comb honey crop.
#1 simply got a second deep box. About half of the new frames have drawn comb. The others are pristine foundation, which comes coated with wax or foundations that I covered with new wax.
#2 had the old drone frame removed and replaced with one of the coated frames that I prepared the other day.
The top box of #3 |
I did see larvae. I remembered a hand lens and I did see some eggs. I did not spot the queen. The pattern of eggs and larvae was not a strong pattern.
I did see this:
An empty queen cell from which a queen as emerged! You can tell she emerged by the sharply chewed edges of the opening.
What is going on in #3? I wish I knew. It does look like it is doing ok. In another couple of weeks I will look again and I hope to see lots of capped brood.
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