Nairobi is continuing to build comb. I added a couple of more bars and removed the cork from the third entrance hole. I pulled bars from the entrance backward until I found the queen. Combs have capped and uncapped brood, pollen, capped and capped honey. Nairobi looks set so I am going to leave it alone for a couple of weeks to give the girls time to build out.
Oscar has comb on all the frames except #9 and #10. I did not pull any more as I am waiting until this weekend to do a more thorough inspection. Since the brood chamber had 80% of the frames being built upon, I went ahead and added the hive body that will be the honey reserve. I also removed the queen excluder since there should be drones hatching soon and they need to get out.
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