We found a nice active unmarked queen on one of the Langstroth frames.
There were a lot of brood frames (could be used for splitting the hive?) and a good supply of pollen. We removed 30 Farrar frames filled with honey and capped.
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Found queen
Transfered the L frames (9) and one farrar into L box at bottom of the hive. Farrar box on top on L box Removed 7 honey cakes on farrar frames Isolated queen in 2x farrar box contained 9 L-frames
Removed 1 L-frame of honey. We should replace the two farrar boxes with a langstroth box before wintering the hive. It is possible that by removing all the wild growth we have weakened the hive as we also removed some larvae... Removed a large amount of DIY wild growth from under the langstroth frames.
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