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Fat shark That is exactly what happend with my lot I did an AS I kow the old queen went into the new hive but 7 days later I cannot find her and both parts of colony have produced QC's??? I am kinda glad its not just me and being a very new BEEK I cannot fathom what is going on.

Not so long ago I AS my hive unfortunately for some reason I lost my original queen but that is a different story. Both Hives have produced a reasonable number of queen cells on friday I went and made sure that there was only one cell in each hive that was left and destroyed the others, I did...

Had a simillar problem with my lot, still had loads of foundation in the brood to work but inner frames were filled to the hilt next week queen cups, my mistake I thought they were play cups, another 7 days and I had capped QC's. Anyway I artificially swarmed them and in the process of doing so...

Ermm you might be able to vacum them out if there is power, some people have those funky hoovers specifically designed to hover up bees without killing them. A sad decision to make though.

This is the bizzare thing there were absoloutely no queen cells on any of the frames put into the new hive not on the face of the comb or underneath. 7 days later in fact less than that as I inspected them on saturday there were sealed queen cells. I know the queen definately went into the new...

Last monday I performed an artificial swarm on my hive so I ended up with old queen in new hive on old site with some food and a frame of brood and queen cells in old hive on new site. I went to check on saturday and have a look in the new hive, no sign of queen and several smallish queen cells...

thats great I hope the farmer whos land my hives are on will do the same. I know there is a lot of talk about how bad the sprays are but it it possible to find out when fields are going to be sprayed and what with. Don't get me wrong i'm sure this won't happen all the time but at the end of the...

thats interesting I had something similar bees had plenty of foundation to pull yet the frames that came in the nuc had absolutely no spare room for laying. Consequently a month after getting the nuc I have had to artificially swarm the little b**gers as I found around 14 queen cells. I...

Hi Shane am also a newbee beek and I went and inspected my hive today and the little perishers in the space of 7 days have extended a few of what I thought were empty queen cups and built from scratch several whole queen cells. I have destroyed all the cells I could find to hopefully put off...