Hi Matthew, It's been my experience that if the hives are very weak there will be little or no evidence of fighting. I assume that this is because of to few guard bees or the hive is demoralized. I had a similiar problem except it was around August. I tried to help it along but it never seemed to take off the way I expected it. Even though it "consumed" a good quantity of syrup. So I stopped feeding out of frustation. I soon turned my attention to other things. When I came back to the hive three weeks later it seemed to be doing better so I waited another 2 weeks. When I checked it again it was booming. However, we are late in the season and you don't have that luxury now so if they were mine and since they are very small I would consider uniting them. There should still be enough warm days to allow you to do this. As far as deciding which queen would rule you will have to make that decision. If you let the bees decide there is a chance you could end up with no queen or an injured one. Good luck. -- > Kent Stienburg > Remove NOSPAM to reply. -- Kent Stienburg Remove NOSPAM to reply.