2022-08-14 No signs of eggs and emergency cells had been drawn on the frame of eggs I added a few days ago. I took down the emergency cells and united the two boxes with Yuki and Whitney.
2022-08-09 Added a frame on mixed sealed brood, larvae and eggs from Whitney in the top box, 6th from the east.
2022-08-06 Checked through but didn’t seen any signs of a laying queen. The remains of the queen cell on the 3rd frame counting from the west was still there but I couldn’t tell if it had hatched.
2022-07-30 Put on a clearer. They seem well behaved and quiet, but I didn’t look through them.
2022-07-13 The queen cell in the bottom box was torn open on the side. But there was a queen cell in the top box, on the east side of the 3rd frame counting from the west, marked with an orange pin. There was one other emergency cell which I took down. There were no eggs and all the larvae I saw were segmented. There aren’t a lot of bees in the top box, so it is available if one of the other hives needs it.
2022-07-08 Whitney swarmed. There were eggs in some of the cells but not many. I guess it wasn’t a supercedure like I had thought. Went through the colony and culled all the queen cells leaving one, marked with an orange pin on the bottom of frame 4 from the north in the bottom box. There were still a few eggs so I should probably go back a few days and check for emergency cells.