The plastic hive split was inspected at Niagara Street. This hive was left queenless during the split and had a very large number of bees. The inspection was performed just in time as I saw and heard a newly hatched queen piping loudly. We found the newly hatched queen and quickly removed and remaining unhatched queen cells.
The unhatched queen cells were moved to a new double NUC box with half of the frames, seven frames. The hatched queen was kept in the plastic hive with the other seven frames. Equally splitting resource and brood frames. I swapped positions of the plastic hive and the new double NUC box. This was to bulk up the numbers of the new double NUC with any foraging bees.
