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This was the first time the hive was queen cell. I honestly don't remember but maybe 3 capped and lots of queen cups but empty. The second time queenless (yesterday) lots of queen cups, all empty and two emergency queen cells but not great looking

So first time I was queenless myself and a more experienced bee keeper determined she had been gone about 3 days from the larva. I had lots of sealed brood, a lot of bees and plenty of stores in brood box. We don't know what happened to her but I stupidly had knocked off the queens cells before...

I have emergency cells 2 weeks after I introduced a new mated queen. I got another bee keeper to check I was queenless the first time just to be sure. The new queen did not seem to lay much at all

I had a couple of emergency cells but they did not look good so opted for the option of rearing from an egg. She new queen had hardly laid anything and all i found was a some small larva and couldn't see any eggs. Part of the problem was that I inspected the hive on Friday and knocked off the...

Here in the UK we had a sudden rise in temperature and many swarms happened in the are, infact we had mine and another just on our school grounds. I think the hive didn't take to the new queen and she had only been there 2 weeks and that partuclar hive was very busy. I was going to do a split...

So I have had this hive a year now. All has been fine but 3 weeks ago I found I was queenless. I purchsed a new queen and all was good for two weeks and yesterday they swarmed so now I am queenless again with just half my bees. I have moved a frame of with eggs over from hive 2 (only owned for 1...

Hello I am new to this forum. I have had bees for almost a year now and recently got a second hive. My bees are based at my school in UK, Hampshire. I still feel very much a newbies especially after a recent issue with beeing queenless!