#3 looked very healthy. The super had honey and a small patch of brood. There was a lot of brood in the brood boxes as well as many empty queen cups.
Today I looked into #2. The super was heavy and there was uncapped honey in the side-most frame. I saw brood and eggs in the top brood box. I also saw one bee with k wing deformity in the hive.
K wing deformity. Not my picture |
I put supers on all three hives. For curiosity (and because I had already removed the super in order to get to the brood box) I put the new super below the old one- bottom-supering. The super on #1 had mostly drawn frames with some old honey and pollen in some while the super in #3 has all new frames.
I successfully moved the water source to my desired location by moving it 1-2 feet at a time and the bees are still going to it.
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