I checked my trap tree today. One week ago I took off an overflowing nuc box of bees from this colony. The trap box was full again today so I took off another full nuc of bees. Last week I put in a frame of uncapped brood to try and get the queen out and dropped the trap cone. On the frame I put in there are two capped queen cells. How long till I know if I have a viable queen? I combined them with the bees from last week. I also took out the trap cone today. The owner agreed to not eliminate the colony. I will use them for starter hives. (I think he was going to miss them!)
