This past week has been rainy and in the 50s (degrees Fahrenheit), so I've seen little activity and wasn't able to open the hives up. I do know that, when I checked the previous week, the new hive (the one with the old queen) was doing very well while the old hive was not. Based upon the decreasing hive population and the sporadic laying of drone egg, it appears that the hive never was able to produce a new queen.
As the season draws down, I assume that I'll reporting less often, but, if they survive the winter, I hope to start posting again in the spring.
