Italian hive ( A2N ) Impressive growth, and they still had over half a jar of syrup left. More importantly they had started building comb on one of the foundation-less frames. They haven't bothered with the foundations, which has really justified our choice in going foundation-less. They have also started filling their other frames with honey, pollen and we found a whole frame of eggs, that were fresh ( standing on end ) so we can safely assume the hive is queen right. We removed the jar, gave them access to the top chamber, and removed one frame of eggs to put into the Carnolian hive. Hopefully they will raise a new queen with it.
Carnolian hive ( A1N )
On opening the Carnolian hive we finally confirmed what we suspected in that there was no queen. Further evidence of this was that we found no eggs in it either. So we took a frame of eggs from the Italians ( A2N ). Hopefully they will have started to build queen cells when we inspect it on Saturday.
They had gone through most of their jar of sugar water so we topped the jar off with the rest of the syrup from A2N, and carried on feeding them. We called our supplier who agreed to exchange our Nuc.
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