Mother Colony (28-29) was opened and checked for new eggs. All empty frames from last weeks split were now full again with eggs and larva. 2 frames were removed from the mother colony and placed into a 5 frame Nuc (003). Mother colony still has 3 frames of almost solid brood and larva to stabilize with. New split (003) was moved to the Niagara property.
Split (001) was moved to the Corona property along side the mother colony.
Split (030) was opened and checked for queen cell progress. The queen cell is now capped and the queen should be emerging in the next few days. This split is about 5 days behind the normal expected queen cell timeline. A few numbers of the brood in this split were killed by cold temperatures. It is my fear that this queen cell may too have been damaged by the cold weather. I will check the cell for a hatched queen in 4 days. If no queen has emerged, then we will reseed with a new frame of eggs.
