I did a post-mortem on the failed split. I'm guessing I just did not add enough bees to keep the baby bees fed. It appears that the emerging bees died from starvation. That's just a guess since I did not do any microscopy on the dead bees.
The other split has lots of eggs so there is a new queen in there somewhere. I did not identify her so I'll look again next week. There is still some room in there for the new colony.
I did a quick look into the main hive. There is brood in the top box as well as some additional space. I think I will try making one more split from this hive before the summer goes along too much further. I need to go all the way to the bottom box to see if they are using that box. I'm not sure they are and if not, why not. I want to prepare another box with frames before breaking down that colony.
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