Status

Yesterday I inspected both hives.

The stronger hive still has good stores: larvae, pollen, and capped brood. I think I saw the queen. I did not see any sign of disease. They are using 3 medium boxes. The boxes,  are not full, but are in pretty good shape. I think next week I should start medications for both hives.

The split hive is actually doing OK. I saw the queen. She is marked with her blue dot and is considerably larger than the queen in the other hive. It makes me wonder if I really correctly identified the queen in the other hive. She has started laying eggs in the second box, the middle one. I probably should have pulled a frame of capped brood from the stronger hive to put in and boost the population, but I am still not completely sure about when to do that. I will probably do that next week when I start medicated syrup and HopGuard.