All normal, all clear

With the Moon hive obviously doing fine (but we shall see), I needed to now only reassure myself that all was well with the nuc and the Star. Previously, the nuc had shown tendencies to swarm and the Star could kick off soon, too.

In the Star all is calm. The super is fairly full, but the brood chamber is still not fully laid out: the bees still have four frames of stores in the brood box. As the hive is getting a bit full (the bees are starting to draw out comb in interesting places, which I interpret as them complaining about a lack of space to draw it out properly), I will super up as soon as I can (have to nail the super frames together first). Throughout the hive I found no signs of queen cells. In fact I only discovered two or three queen cups, so swarming does not seem to be on the Star's immediate agenda.

A whole frame full of stores from the Star

I was rather more worried about the nuc. Last time I had looked I had seen a queen cell. However today there was no queen cell in sight, only one or two queen cups. So here, too, the colony seems to have slowed down to business as usual; thank God!
And the queen was beautifully green and visible.

My plan now is to check the Moon. If all is well there, then I will amalgamate the Star with the nuc, keeping the nuc queen. If not, I will bring the nuc and the Moon together. However, I'm sure the bees have other ideas...