I have been peeking occasionally into the hives to see if they need more space. They haven't needed more, but I have been worried about the nuc. The number of bees is so much less than the other hives. I decided to look and see is I could find the queen. The top box is still mostly empty, but they have started to draw comb in a couple of the middle frames. I started into the second box and the first four frames had honey. Finally I found a frame with eggs and capped brood and even a worker bee who was in the process of hatching. I'm still worried that I have an under-performing queen and maybe I should replace her, but since I have trouble finding her I am not confident that I can replace her.
I looked online and saw something about replacing a queen anytime between June 21 and September 21, but that was for a bee farm in Illinois. It may be too late in the season for Maine(?)
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