new package installed (in the old tbh from the peczuh farm)
wooten golden italian queen from abeez honey in SF.
had been in package for quite a bit and were ornery
already laying eggs
inspected queen hives
empty queen cups everywhere
drones everywhere
eggs and larva everywhere
no room to expand at all
i figure 2 weeks till swarming - i gotta do some splits
i cut out 5 day old larva (my best guess) and put them on the queen frame along with 2 frames of mixed brood 1 frame of pollen and some honey. kind of mangled the cells a bit but we'll see what happens. had shaken off all bees from combs before moving to queen nuclei but by the time i closed up the hives, the brood was covered by nurse bees
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