This is a timeline to help us schedule inspections and beekeeping duties. A routine of feeding 1:1 sugar syrup was decided on to encourage the drawing out of the new frames with foundation:
| Brice’s Layens nucleus colony | BLUE WEBSTER | LAVENDER WEBSTER | GREEN WEBSTER |
| Kirk Webster Queen installed May 17th Ed, Susan, Tom, Athena | Kirk Webster Queen installed May 17th Ed, Susan, Tom, Athena | ||
| May 26 Brice & Willy, Connie. Outside observation thriving & topped off feed. | May 26 Brice & Willy Connie. Outside observation thriving & topped off feed. | ||
| June 2 Brice & Willy, Connie. Queen marked by Brice. Inspection showed no progress on comb building. Feeders empty. Dry Q cups. Pollen pants. Drones. All stages brood. Increased entrance reducer. | June 2 Brice & Willy, Connie. Queen marked by Brice. Inspection showed no progress on comb building. Feeders empty. Dry Q cups. Pollen pants. Drones. All stages brood. Increased entrance reducer. | ||
| June 5th Susan, Ed, Heather, Bob topped off syrup. | June 5th Susan, Ed, Heather, Bob topped off syrup. | ||
| June 10th Willy & Athena installed Green Webster Queen with her swarm in new Lavender hive with one medium frame drawn comb from Athena. | June 10th Willy & Athena witness Green Webster swarming and catch swarm. | ||
| June 19th Brice establishes Layens nuc for raising & mating a virgin queen from Lemon-fair Honey-works Q. | June 20th Athena added dry pollen to help swarm establish. | ||
| June 28 pulled out paving stones for ventilation-hot weather coming. | June 28 pulled out paving stones for ventilation-hot weather coming. June 28th Inspection revealed several frames of capped & stages of open brood & honey stores. Foundation frames well developed. Brood comb built to extend medium donor frame. 18 days since swarm. | June 28 pulled out paving stones for ventilation-hot weather coming. | |
| June 30th Outside inspection & syrup topped off. | June 30th Skunk prevention. TK, Athena, Robin, Brian, Kelly. TK anchored chicken wire roll at entrances | June 30th Outside inspection & syrup topped off. | |
| July 5th Inspection Queen cells spotted. Successful raising of a Lemon Fair Honey Works virgin queen. | July 5th Robin, Athena, Brice. Inspection revealed hatched Q cells. Presumed colony swarmed about June 29th. Super being well worked with honey stores. | July 5th Outside inspection & syrup topped off. | July 5th Outside inspection & syrup topped off. |
| July 9th Outside inspection & syrup topped off. | Thursday, July 9th a super with frames of foundation were added. | Thursday, July 9th – Robin, Brice, Athena: Inspection revealed a laying daughter queen to the original Kirk Webster Q. 29 days since swarm event. | |
| July 12th Outside inspection & syrup topped off. | July 12th added super & syrup topped off. | July 12th added super & syrup topped off. | |
| July 19 Inspection Added 2 new frames. Honey, pollen. Newly mated Queen. All stages brood. Pissy. | |||
| July 26 Inspection 21 days since swarm cells hatched. | July 26th Outside inspection & syrup topped off. | July 26th Outside inspection & syrup topped off. |
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