I accomplished this with all of my own resources

I'm stoked!
Mother hive: transfered laying queen from nuc to mother hive 6 days ago. She's released. That's a bee in the cage sniffing around. I'll check back in two weeks for eggs. What a difference in the attitude of the hive. So peaceful


Nuc hive: pulled from this spring turned into a full bustling hive. After moving queen to Mother hive, I split the nuc.. to keep it a nuc, I now have nuc1 and nuc2. Nuc1 is now peacefully making and filling queen cells.


Nuc2: I had a frame of queen cells left over from when I tested mother hive for a queen. Put them into Nuc2

They are hatched out now. I'll check back in 2 weeks so she can get mated and start laying.
