Environmental Notes

• Poplar bloom is starting to fade, seeing the blossoms on the ground now.
• Still in a stage 2 drought with no rain documented in April.

Notes from Last Time

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| R3: [r3h3] [r3h2] [r3h1]         |
| R2:        [r2h2] [r2h1]         |
| R1: [r1h3] [r1h2] [r1h1]         |
|                           GATE > |
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R1H1

• Dived back down into the bottom box, pulled closed brood to the top
• confirmed queen right

R1H2

• Dived back down into the bottom box, pulled closed brood to the top
• Confirmed queen right
• Added a third super and shored up the stand with additonal cinder blocks and bricks

R2H2

• Checkerboarded their top box
• Confirmed queen right

R3H1

• Dived back down into the bottom box, pulled closed brood to the top
• confirmed queen right

R3H1

• Queenless, the single open frame of brood that we gave them had a queen cell on it, will check again in a few weeks

What We Did

R1H1

• Cut queen cells in the top box

R1H2

• Cut queen cells in the top box

R2H2

• Left them alone this week, going to do a full inspection next week

R3H1

• Cut queen cells in the top box

R3H1

• Still waiting on that queen cell to hatch, will examine them next week