Recent content by Armpitjam

Had a look in the hive yesterday and seen the new white marked queen laying nicely, so this new queen had taken over 15 days to start laying. Really was doubting myself after reading comments on here, I done everything I was supposed to do.

The only queen cells made were the ones on the test frame as the hive had no open brood at that point. I was going into the hive every 3 days to knock all cells down intill queen arrived in post. By that point no queen cells had been made as no open brood left. I may of missed a tiny cell...

Yea they have made space for a queen to lay by looks of it yesterday, middle of frames empty with arch of stores on tops of frames. Madasafish thanks will start keeping better records as iv only been marking the day in calendar without details. I’m still learning, everything I’ve learnt is...

Hi, I noticed no eggs in this hive in 2 inspections over 10days back in late June in to July, so I put test frame in, checked 3 days later for queencells and knocked them down and ordered a new queen. While waiting for new queen I was checking for new queencells and knocking them down...

Thanks, I was thinking the same thing. I will look in quickly in 5 days time and update this thread.

Thanks guys. Yes there is still loads of bees, they have stopped running around like they do when queenless on the frames...they seem calm yesterday on frames so a bit confusing. They are buckfast so calm with or without a queen anyway. The other problem is I don’t won’t to go pulling all the...

They have plenty of pollen and stores, they have been bloodless for a few weeks so yea plenty lol.

Hi, one of my hives is being a nightmare, it went queenless back in June so I put in a test frame to be sure and they made emergency queen cells as expected, I knocked them down, checking every few days before the queen came. I ordered a queen from exmoor bees, I put the intro cage on top...