Hive L: The brood chamber was not inspected. The frames in the top of the three supers were quite empty but they had been repaired well after spinning. Hopefully some late summer nectar will be collected.
Hive R: At least one of the queen cells had hatched. The colony was quite calm so a queen must exist. No eggs were visible.
Later... (see below), did the escaped queen go back to the hive that she emerged from when it swarmed 10 days ago. If so, what will happen as there is now a new queen? We'll see next week!
Hive W: The queen that had swarmed was found above the excluder and put in a matchbox. The newly captured workers had merged well and the colony is now quite strong. No eggs were visible. Some honey frames are building up well and will be ready for extraction soon.
The matchbox was taken 5m away so that the queen could be destroyed but she was very agile and escaped...
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