The Germans

First of all the German had a box full of queen cells that I found just in time. I made up two other boxes with the brood and queen cells but the queen cells were not on three separate frames to make three boxes easily. To make up three boxes I cut a cell out of a frame that had more than one on put that on a frame and put that in the original box for the flying bees to look after. On inspection the next day I found that they bees has cut a hole in the side it. I wasn't convinced that they had a queen so I put in a frame of brood from the WBC hive. They made several queen cells. Today I thought maybe I could cut a queen out of the frame and split the bees up into two but there in the box was a laying queen. Marked green. The queen cells were still on the introduced frame.

I took that frame and a couple of others out and put them in a nuc box.