Did a routine inspection to check on progress and and signs of preparing for swarming. I also had a brave observer (Ken) who declined my spare bee suit but kept a reasonable distance.
Hive L: expanding but very slowly. The bees are preparing the super frames but still not filling them with nectar. This is a weak colony and will need to be built up (taking some workers from Hive R?) or by creating a nucleus from Hive R and re-queening.
Hive R: continues to grow rapidly and one super is already 75% full. So I added another super of 8 drawn frames underneath the almost full super. No sign of queen cell production.
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