A few days before, I inspected Cyn's hive with her. She had been given it by Bruce who is moving to North Carolina. What I noticed in her hive is that there was essentially no pollen. Normally there is a band of pollen around the brood and then a band of honey. You can see the pollen by the brood but not much honey in the below picture.
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This is what we saw in Cyn's hive. Fortunately Bruce had also given Cyn some substitute pollen patties and we put one in her hive. She gave me some patties as a thank you gift. When I looked into my hives, it looked like there was not much pollen (even though lots of bees were bringing in pollen) so I put a patty into each hive (not the nuc).
Olea's hive had lots of bees and there was a bit more honey than the last time I looked. I saw the queen and brood in the top box of #2; did not look into the bottom box. There was brood in the top box of #3. The bottom box was just empty comb. Back in May I had reversed the boxes of #2 but not #3. Since the bottom box is empty now, I think that in the future I will reverse boxes in the spring if the queen is in the top box.
