I checked on the blue hive this weekend to see how they're progressing on filling their super and to check again for queen cells.

They had the frames about 90% filled. As soon as they lower the moisture content down we should see them cap the honey. In the picture below, only a small section of honey comb near the top of the picture is empty.



They did not draw out the pure wax foundation in the white super yet, so I reversed it's position with the blue super, and it is now below the blue one they had been filling.

My thoughts are that if they have to walk up through the white super to get to the blue one, they'll be encouraged to draw out the foundation in the white one and fill it too. We'll see how it goes.



We saw another dozen queen cups that had been re-created after I removed them last weekend, but none of them had eggs in them. We removed the cups anyways. If they can make it through the rest of this week, I have a new queen arriving that I'll use to split this hive with and resurrect the white hive!