It had been more than 3 weeks since the last inspection and the bees were missing me. I took a look in all the hives and the nuc yesterday.
Over all, things look good. There is lots of brood and I spotted 3 out of 5 queens. There does not seem to be more honey produced than there was last month and only Olea's hive has an obvious increase in population (there are now only 3 exposed combs). There was no drawn comb on the drone frames so I moved them to the side. I also moved one frame with old wax one slot toward the side in #3. In the nuc I switched out a plastic frame that had no comb for a wooden frame with a new foundation. There was an opened queen cell on an otherwise empty frame in #2. The queen in #1 was gold, fat and beautiful.
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| A good brood pattern on a comb from Olea's hive |
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| Brood on a misshaped comb on a foundationless frame from #3 |
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Look at the different coloration of the workers in #1. This demonstrates their genetic variation
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| The opened queen cell. The frame is upside-down |
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| Another view of the queen cell. A queen has emerged from it |
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