I checked on the #4 hive today to see if any of the young nurse bees have started to make a new Queen bee. There was only 1 capped queen cell (on frame 3) and 1 queen cup (on frame 5) with a larvae swimming in royal jelly.
According to the calendar, the queen in the capped cell should hatch on Wednesday, June 6. By this date, the second queen in development will have been capped and the new queen that hatched first will kill it. There can only be one queen per hive.
The other 3 hives looked good and it seems like the nectar flow is over for now as they are eating their honey stores.
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