Campus check

The split hive from last week was inspected and no signs of a queen cell were found. The time without a queen has been 5 days. I would expect to have seen a queen cell. We may need to add a fresh frame of eggs. Otherwise the colony look very strong.

No other colonies were split as they really did not have enough to fill out the one deep box. The two remaining unsplit hives now both have a second deep brood box to grow into. The first picture below shows a good healthy colony but not really ready to split. The second deep box will help make splits a bit later in the spring.

The colony which had eggs in the super was finally fixed. All of the brood had hatched out and no new eggs were present due to the queen excluder which I placed on the hive a few weeks back. All bees in the upper super were shaken into the lower deep. The empty second deep was added.

A 2stack Nuc was taken to the campus. This has fully drawn frames and some resources. This will be for swarm catches or new splits.