RIP Isolde

It doesn't look like Isolde and her girls were just kidding around last week. No eggs, and a bunch of unsealed queen cells. Also, it looks like Boudicca is declining. Her brood nest is small, and there are several capped queen cells. With both hives, I am going to see what happens with the home-grown queens. I might reduce them to nuc size and combine the rest of the hives with some of the others.

On the bright side, my experiment of attaching the burr comb to an empty frame worked (below). The cells look like drones, which is what this frame was supposed to be for. Cool!