- Demeter, the mother hive, seems to be doing well. Pulled another 5 medium frames of capped honey today.
- Split #1, this is the split that has a laying queen. They still have room in the deep and are drawing comb and pulling in nectar.
- split #2, this split will not cooperate and produce a queen. I'm giving them one more week to see eggs or they will get combined with another hive.
- package #1, I added another medium to this hive since they had drawn and filled out most of the first deep. The queen is laying and they look like they are doing a good job.
- package #2, This hive received a 2nd medium last week and they have hardly touched it. I moved some more frames with stores to the top in hopes of luring them up.
- CSX split, I made this split 8 days ago and today when I checked on them one side of a frame with brand new eggs as spotted! Hopefully I didn't get the original queen from the CSX hive, but I don't think so. She must have hatched right after I made the split and and got right to mating to be laying eight days later!
My be yard is quite the mess! I need to pull down the fence, finish dispersing the dirt from the garden beds that I removed and put up a nice new fence with a gate and stands or rails for the hives that are just sitting on blocks.
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