Corona St. Splits were opened and inspected for queens. Queen-less Split (001), started on March 14, mother colony (28-29) was inspected. The split still has good resources and queen is present. No eggs.
Queen-less Split (003), started on March 23, mother colony (28-29) has emerged. The queen appeared to be in excellent condition and the split has excellent resouces and unhatched brood. No Eggs. Several of the queen cells were destroyed by the queen. However one un-molested queen cell was found. This frame was moved to a new box, (009). Two frames of bees were moved from this split (003) into the new NUC (009). There were more than enough bees in split (003) for this split of a split.
Queen-less Split (030), started on March 7, mother colony (28-29) was examined. The colony has good resources but no Eggs yet.
Queen-less Split (026), started on March 14, mother colony (28-29) was inspected. The queen looks much improved since the day she emerged. The color of the queen has filled in and she is much larger in size. The box has good resources and numbers of bees. No Eggs seen.
Queen-less split (027), started on March 31, mother colony “Officer Ed” was not inspected. These smaller 3 frame NUC boxes are so tight in their construction that damaging the queen cells would be inevitable. We will check back next week for an emerged queen.
