Thanks to Tropical Storm Debby and some other factors I've been overdue on my inspections. Today I did my Gville hives and here's a quick summary:
Pink hive - rich in food stores, queenless!, lots of beetles
Pink only has a handful of capped brood left and a handful of what appear to be emerged queen cells. Plan for next time - transplant a from of brood from the hill hive. Also, they weren't drawing at all in the honey super I'd given them so I pulled it - I think the extra space was just giving the SHB room to do their thing.
Hill hive - not so rich in food stores, very queen right, fair number of SHB
The plan on this hive is to feed a bit and let them get their food stores up so they can support the brood they're rearing.
Also, though overdue (and therefore likely less effective) I finally watered in my SHB nematoads. Hopefully they'll help, but I'm afraid I sat on them too long. So I'll probably order some more in the near future.
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