It was 84º, clear skies and no breeze at the bee yard.
Swarm Hive
My Dad and I looked through the hive just out of curiosity. I did not see any eggs/larva or a queen, yet the bees, which cover four frames have remained and are VERY busy storing sugar water and pollen.
Alpha Hive
I thought I would look through the top box frames for swarm/supercedure cells and remove them in preparation for the new queen. I found the the top middle frames are being used to store nectar and pollen. The bees are also drawing comb in the top box frames. I did not see any eggs/larva or a queen.
I removed the top hive body and started going through the lower hive body frames. The frames in the middle of the hive body had eggs! While looking for more eggs and finding them, I found a queen! Its good to see that the hive seems to have successfully requeened itself.
What I find interesting is that Alpha and Beta hives requeened themselves and the queens starting laying eggs within days of each other.
I still have two queens on the way. So I am thinking of putting one queen in the swarm hive. The other queen will be used for a split made from the Alpha hive. Alpha hive should have plenty of frames of eggs/larva by the end of the week.
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