TomThe nuc hives seem to be doing good. The green one has more pollen coming in, the white one is taking more syrup.
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What do you think? A queen?
Returning from a mating flight.. It's been 5 days since frames with queen cells were put in the nuc but maybe she was already emerged and I didn't see her. They say 6 days to mature but these are bees so they have their own plans.
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The white nuc yesterday. It seems to have guard bees on duty so maybe they like the queen I put in there. I see a few other bees coming and going but the activity is less than the green nuc. This one only had 2 frames of bees, brood, food, and queen cells when split but I put an emerged queen into the hive the next day.
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The bees at the green nuc yesterday. This is the one that has 3 frames of bees, brood, food, and queen cells. I've seen foragers coming in with pollen so I guess some didn't decide to go back to their old hive. I might have observed a little bit of robbing going on too but it's hard to tell if the bees fly off into the yonder or turn directly into one of the hives next to it.