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WildCA18B hive opened, eggs found marginal brood pattern. Introduced frame feeder, filled with 1:1 sugar water. Comb drawing has slowed and colony does not appear to want to fill the box.

Dakota18B hive opened. No eggs were found. However the newly hatched virgin queen was found. Also several chewed out emergency queen cells were found. Almost all of the capped brood has hatched and been back filled with nectar.

New hive stand was installed at campus in South Eastern corner. Langstroth hives will be installed at new location.

Scott bees seen at campus swarm catcher.

WildCA18A fully inspected at Barrett Location. Colony has good eggs, good larva and brood. Queen not seen. Noticeable spotty brood pattern concerned about queen productivity. However, this hive is new and was just moved, I will give this queen move time to acclimate.

Concerned about bees falling off frames during inspection. Bee do not seem to be very energetic on comb. Fallen bees are not taking to the air but rather lethargic on ground. Possible poisoning?

Top warre box filled with bees. Bottom 2 boxes are empty. Checkerboard 3 frames to the next box down.

Full hive inspection on Dakota18A. Queen right hive. 4 warre boxes almost completely fully built out with comb. Noticeable increase in number of bee inside hive and hive entrance activity.

Dakota18A at Niagara was treated with oxalic acid, 2 caps, 10 minutes. Hive was not opened. Normal entrance activity observed.

Metal Queen excluder was added to Dakota18B and top super opened. Dakota18B colony was not inspected due to emergency queen cells discovered during last inspection.

Swarm was caught at the Smith building grounds swarm catcher. Swarm catcher was constructed of 2 horticultural pots wired together and hoisted up into the tree. Simple lemon grass oil bait was used. Swarm was a average size. Colony was installed into a Langstroth deep brood chamber at Niagara.

Wild17 hive opened and 4th warre box added to bottom.

WildCA18A colony was moved to Barrett house. Hive moved was 2 warre boxes and stand. Water feeder placed below entrance of hive.

Wild17 inspected. This hive has a nasty temper when opened. Lots of smoke used. Good new comb. Hive is queen right.

WildCA18A inspected. No smoke needed. New comb looks great. Hive is queen right.