Andy

N|o - you open up and remove the QCs before introducing the queen - otherwise they will either just kill her or swarm with her

My hive referred to in the 'Queen cells torn down' thread has now fulfilled its role. I have now raised 6 queens and want to convert it...

Brilliant, I had all the remaining 6 queens emerge. The expected date was yesterday. I had one Tuesday ( I'd put into a colony before...

So the mystery is over. I must have missed a queen cell the other week. I found a virgin wondering around, so she is no more. I didn't...

Maybe that is why. Not sure. The supers and top had a lot of bees but not the bottom brood box. I was doing it as a preemptive strike...

Weirdly from all my Demarees I didn’t have a single cell raised from the frames. That was with two supers below and the top was packed...

So am I right that starting from the bottom, you have brood box. super, brood box. Then in the top box you are splitting with a dummy...

One usually raises QC's in an established laying QR colony, making them QL destabalises a colony . A newly mated Q or VQ to a colony...

Bees should be a joy and a peasure to work not a chore or one that is a 'on my god ' colony.

I don't disagree with that. Just to be clear, the grafts are not from the nasty colony.🤣 And I can't wait for the time I don't have to...

You are probably right but I’m also stubbornly focused on my end goal, angry colony or not😂 In the future I have no desire to have any...

I didn’t have a lot of choice on the colony as I’m just starting out :) They were meant to be requeened at the start of the season but...

I had a peek this afternoon. Eggs still there. Brood still there. No QCs. I spent ages looking for a virgin and sieved them though I am...

I’ve since put in a frame of larvae to try and establish if there is a virgin running about. I did also recheck the frames for queen...

Today was a bit frustrating. I had a colony that was really not very nice. So I set it up in the ben harden configuration and killed the...