All hives are outside and look good.
Hive 022 was opened, and the top box was examined for eggs. Eggs were found and the queen was captured and moved to the bottom box, below the Queen excluder. We will slowly get the brood out of the top box. The queen was very skinny and kept escaping the queen clip. Not sure if she will stay below the queen excluder.
Hive 021 was opened. Brood was found in the top deep box. The hive is extremely active and populated with bees. The sugar which was added in Feb is completely gone. I added more sugar to the top.
Hive 020 was opened. Small amounts of resources were still in some exterior frames. More sugar was added to the top. A surprising amount of dead bees are accumulating at the bottom of this hive. Not sure if this is normal behavior for this time of year. The other hives do not show this symptom.
Hive 007 was opened. The bees were a bit angry and low on numbers. There are still complete frames of honey resources in the top box. I did not examine the hive any further. This is by far the weakest colony we have.
