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I couldn't find a local forum. ^^; But I will continue to look. I know geography matters.

We are actually in quite a heatwave here. With the humidity it was feeling like 48° last week.

That's good to hear. I didn't think it looked quite like the checkerboard pattern I've looked up. If I remove frames of honey, should I put them higher up in the hive, or store them else ware for winter? Even though they seem weak, they had nearly filled the their second box, that's why I...

I smoked them a bit so I could see. They were both covered.

Really? I couldn't see anything in them besides the odd larvae. And I'm glad to hear that about the checkering. I wasn't sure if it was a normal amount or not. Thank you!

Update I inspected the hive again and noticed that the frame of brood I took from the other hive is rather checker-boarded. I'm not sure how I missed this when I took it to begin with. I will treat both hive for mites, as I did spot one, but I'm not sure this explains why the one hive is so...

I thought they were bearding because of how hot it was that day, but I will definitely check for space today.

Is off lay a permanent thing? There are ten frames in each box, and all the frames in the brood chamber have something, but mostly honey. The top box is partially drawn out and looks like their putting honey in them too.

Thanks for the advice! I'll look into those tests. I had read about migrating, but I didn't think it would happen that drastically. It would be nice if that's all it is.

I bought two Nucs locally this June and suddenly one hive is very weak compared to the other, and I don't know why. I think it may be a bad Queen because I'm seeing very few eggs in that hive. It has lots of honey, maybe two frames of capped brood, but only about 1/3 of a frame of eggs at last...