Weather: 60's, overcast, cool, periodic showers
When we arrived last night there wasn't any electricity at the house and my dad said there were thunderstorms throughout the day. While sitting around in the dim light of a few candles my dad recounted the days events since he had arrived. He said one thing that concerned Jim and I which was that one of the hives wasn't active while the other two were busy. We were concerned because we knew we had left 2 supercedure cells in the hive and also knew that they hatched sometime during the week.
What we didn't know was whether half of the hive swarmed away with the old queen, whether the old queen killed the new queen or whether the colony killed the old queen and the newly hatched queens could have both fatally injured themselves leaving the hive queenless hence no activity! Since there wasn't any electricity to do research online, we decided to go to bed and get an early start in the morning.
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