Checked the hives on the 7th. All the queens were found, as were new eggs. One Hive showed pretty large pupae. This was the hive that freed the queen on their own, and also the hive that I used the marshmallow to plug the queen cage after pulling the cork out of the wrong side. Note to self: either do this on purpose later, or dig out some of the candy before putting the cage in a hive. The bees were still trying to free the queen after three days from the candy plug.
I also added new baggies of syrup to all the hives. They are going through the bags fairly quick. I've put about 25lbs of sugar on them in the first 10 days.
After the amount of comb built the first 5 days, I thought it would be time to add the second hive body. Nope. Not yet. Maybe next week. I did find that I am short one deep hive body. So I'll throw a medium on the top and figure out if and how to fix the mismatch later.
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