Well the queens in the little hive hatched but I don’t know what happened. There should have been some eggs… there were none. So I combined them with the big hive next door using paper to separate them so they could get used to each other’s smells without warring. They will eat through the newspaper and be one big happy family.
I did the same to the hive next to the now ginormous hive as they had no queen. Two ginormous hives on the front line of hives.
I took 8 more frames of honey from the two strong hives when I was combining them. And gave them back 6 that I had extracted…
Homesteading after living aboard 