Equalizing the population

It was a bit too cloudy to go into the hives today. I was short of time. However,  I wanted to balance the populations. 

I moved both the white hive and the light blue hive about two feet to the right so that the returning foragers would go back to the white box.

The light blue box seemed to have the larger population. It also has the honey super on top so that even if it lost population, the bees still had food.

To add to the bee confusion I put the empty nuc box (it has drawn foundation in it) all the way down to almost exactly the place that the white box occupied.

Now, the returning bees have a choice, not that they need a choice. Rather, it might help stabilize the population of the newer white hive box.

I will be gone for 10 days at the end of the week. Right before I leave I will swap the boxes, putting then back to their original positions.

Swapping shifts the populations, but it does lead to confusion. Here's what the confusion looks like.