2018

Last year, we got two sets of five frames locally in late May and requeened with Russian queens (I think in June). One of the hives died at the beginning of fall. Lots of mold in that hive, so perhaps it was just the mold that did it.

Inspected the hive that survived from last year. The hive is doing really strong! Two or three succession cells, no swarm cells.Even plastic foundation is drawn out. Brood up to two or three frames from far end. Fair amount of drones and drone cells. Did not see queen. Very little action in shallow super, frames not really drawn out yet, so removed queen excluder because it was a bit clogged and put shallow super back on.