In a nutshell, Hive A did not have any activity in the honey super... but more disconcerting.... this hive appears to be queenless. There was some capped brood and older larva, but I didn't see ANY eggs in the bottom box. I need to figure out what to do about this one. In retrospect, I should have probably have taken a frame of eggs from one of the other hives and put it into this hive so they could make another queen.
Hive B looked to be in better shape, there are sill a couple of the "botched" frames. This one had all but one frame with drawn comb. So I added another deep hive body to this one.
The second hive body on hive C had only four frames that did not have drawn comb. These bees have been very prolific.... and I decided to go ahead and add a honey super to this one (with the queen excluder and Imrie shim).
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