After the VBA meeting I paid a visit on the girls. It was a little late in the day.
Juno not doing much, not even any bur or bracing comb in the empty parts of box.
The first two supers on Artemis partially capped. A few bees were using the hole I had drilled into the top super to enter and exit the hive. Only a few bees were fanning at the entrance. Did not observe any foragers returning with pollen.
Ceres foragers were not using the hole drilled into the top super. At some point should cut top entrances into the inner cover since currently only Artemis has that feature (and the bees there use it a great deal both in summer and in winter). Like Artemis, only a few bees were fanning at the entrance and I did not observe any foragers returning with pollen.
The 'purple' nuc had several workers fanning at the entrance while 'mauve' did not...
There is a funky smell about the hives, I suspect that is the smell that results from the bees working goldenrod.
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