Well, almost.
With the one hive becoming dangerously aggressive, and the remaining two hives still chasing my dogs, 3Reds, and me into the house, we've decided to move all of our hives to our friend's property outside of town and away from people.
Our backyard hives are usually pretty peaceful. And I know they will become peaceful again, but we just no longer feel like we can risk them hurting someone while we are waiting for them to calm down. This is going to be a test of just how lazy a beekeeper I am, since I will no longer be able to just look out my back window to check on the bees.
I'll either become a better beekeeper, since my checking will be intentional and scheduled.
Or I'll become a worse beekeeper because I will put off driving out to check on the hives when I need to be there to make a change.
I've ordered two of BeeWeaver's mite-resistant queens to requeen the aggressive hive and the swarm.
I'm just going to have to wait and see if I can figure out why the other two hives are still defensive. Lots of nectar and pollen right now. The queens were alive and laying last week when we looked. Maybe they are angry about the Formic Pro treatment that just ended. Maybe because 3Reds and I just disturbed them.
Could it be residual defensiveness after the aggressive hive's attacks on us on Thursday?
I'll look for signs of queen cups or queen cells while I'm packing and unpacking the hives later today, and make a decision about requeening these one year old queens.
This won't be the last time I disturb these hives this week.
Once my new queens arrive (Wednesday or Thursday), I plan to remove four frames from the sick hive and replace them with two frames of brood from each of these two hives.
Hopefully they won't get disgusted with me and abscond. That would be three invasions into their hives in two weeks. I don't have queen includers to trap the queens inside.