Queen-less Split (001) started on March 14, mother colony (28-29) has emerged. We will check back in 2 week for eggs. This split made 2 adjoining queen cells which could not be separated. The unhatched queen appears to be intact and not killed yet. So this frame was cleared of all bees and moved into another split from the (28-29) mother colony. One frame of brood with nurse bees was taken from mother colony (28-29) and put into a 3 frame NUC box (026).
One frame of nurse bees from mother colony(28-29) was moved into the 3 Frame NUC box (026). The Single frame with the unhatched queen cell was added. Hopefully the unopened and undamaged queen cell still contains a viable queen. Otherwise we will combine this colony back with the mother colony or turn into a new split.
