First up two yellow daughters who had hatched in the red swarm hive using the two open brood above the Q excluder method.
One into a small yellow box with q excl plus bees from red swarm.
One into 6 frame wooden hive with bees from old aflegger and two from red swarm, went back into cell (to eat?) left her inside cell on top of frames; 2 frames honey and block of nectapol.
Grafted from yellow Q, her first laying since moving to 1st Mini plus; half with water royal jelly unfrozen mix and half dry. These on top rail.
Second rail from red swarm Q (Seen) including half with RJ mix H2O and half dry plus some RJ from QCells in top of Redswarm and the rest of the hive where there are lots of bees and lots of capped brood.
Placed grafts between two frames of open brood in second lift above Q excluder.
Three and two capped Qcells (plus bees) from the red queen placed in two sides of green folding hive.
Etienne's swarm in far corner; thorough inspection, all ok, 4kg uncapped honey, brood all stages on 9 frames. Found Q marked green, although she's probably not (red?). Good build up not bursting and pretty well behaved.
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