>Tomorrow I'll send pics if the drone brood hasn't hatched. Or if I find more queen cells.
Here you go. It's a patch of drone brood on either side of a newly built-out frame of foundation, the only deep frame of foundation put in this hive this year. They built a patch of drone foundation on either side of the frame. New queen cups since last week, no jelly.
Looks like about 60% of the drones hatched on side 2 last week. Maybe a third on side 1.
First-year queen. Mite count was 0 in this hive last week (alcohol wash). Population is pretty heavy.
I figured they were getting ready to swarm because they had been fed during a dearth. The feeders were pulled last week.
S
Skillman, NJ
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