It's been a bit of a roller coaster on the beekeeping front lately. The bad news in that Toby's hive is queenless! There were eggs in the drone comb when I rotated those frames a couple of weeks ago when we pulled the honey supers so I thought everything was good. Unfortunately I didn't do a full inspection at the time and didn't realize I had a problem until last week when I opened up the hive and saw lots of queen cells. I'm waiting to see if the hive was able to create a new queen. I checked it this week and no eggs yet. The queen cells are all gone. Either I have a queen that has yet to mate and start laying or no queen at all. If that's the case, I'll need to buy one. Hopefully I'll know within the next week...
Luckily, Cam's hive is happy and healthy and has lots of honey so I'm thankful for that!

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