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Please don’t excuse yourself - I’m sincerely treasuring your input as I’m desperate for proper sound beekeeping advice and experience! Glad I came here for support.

Sorry to ask but I obviously don’t have the experience that you guys have: what would be the problem with that? Thanks

I see. I was told to do that to avoid the colony absconding, whereas if the queen stays in for 3 days the bees would have built comb, if the swarm queen was a mated one she would have started to lay, so less likely that they will abscond. I was also told that swarm bees are a bit less likely to...

Hemo, wondering if you would please point me to any good sound resource on virgin queens and practical beekeeping in general? I’ve read the recommended books on queen rearing and other general beekeeping books, swarm, etc but neither those books or the senior beekeepers at my teaching apiary...

Sure. I don’t know any other type other than the Torne’s plastic ones and that’s the one I have to spare, but they seems strong enough.

Could it be plastic? I have a spare plastic one

Thanks - definitely for next time!

So what’s not good about using a qx under if removing it doesn’t involve opening the hive

Wish I’d known this before 😩

What sort of small piece? Never seen/heard about it

Thanks for that. So in 3 days I go back - I suppose ideally outside of mating hours - to put a frame with eggs/young larvae in and leave it for another week and then check that frame only.

Thanks. I put the excluder in as per my mentor’s instructions. He did say 3 days but because I couldn’t do any beekeeping on the third day then I took the excluder out today which makes 2 days with the excluder in in total. Did I mess everything up for not leaning the excluder for 3 days?

Just under 10 minutes I believe

Swarm caught and hived 2 days ago, took bottom queen excluder out today and when opened hive just to see if found eggs I saw a little bit of drawn comb but no eggs and spotted the virgin queen. Tried to catch her just to mark her (aware some people are “against” marking virgin queens and their...

All the emergency queen cells were taken out because the plan is to do the “patch method” with genetics from my best queen. So I need them queenless and with no emergency queen cells first before a I introduce an egg/young larva comb cutout from my other colony.

I see; it could well have been. Puzzling though as that colony was very populated with bees, healthy, brood in 9 frames and super with plenty of nectar when they started putting emergency queen cells up.

One of my colonies was queenless and had 5 open emergency queen cells. I destroyed the cell wax work of all 5 of them, killed one larva with the hive tool and scooped all the other 4 larvae out and left those larvae on somewhere around the lugs for the bees to cannibalise or kill or move them...

Did a split in one of my colonies on 7 May and the colony left queenless made emergency queencells. I opened that hive a couple of times to thin the cells down to only one cell and left the hive alone. After opening the hive on 9 June to look for a laying queen, I found no eggs, the bees seemed...

Would you kindly let me know the outcome? Have a beekeeper friend who had a call about a similar issue. Thanks