I had the day off work today. I checked the hive to find, hopefully, the new queen at home. The bees were nice and calm, a good sign. The travel case, which I had placed in the hive on Saturday was completely empty, even all the food was gone. Some of the foragering bees are returning pollen which is another sign of a viable queen. I did not find any eggs but the cells on the brood frames, which were full of honey, are being cleared out. I hope this the first step in re-establishing order in the the colony I had taken a spare super with me so I dropped that on when I rebuilt the hive.
The middle hive is building up but I don't think we will have much of a honey surplus from this hive. The end hive is charging on. The upper brood box is having wax drawn at a great rate and there are eggs and larvae everywhere. That means I will have 70,000+ bees and that means honey. Here's hoping.
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