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I put in a test frame at 45 days as was equally worried.

2 splits made April 13th took 45-50 days before I saw eggs.

She’s happy! Was a good 50 days from the split before I saw signs of a laying queen.

Both were mating flights IMO

What?

There were a ton of drones. If I didn't split this hive in early April, they would be swarming right now. I would rather 'jump the gun' by splitting my hives and breeding my own queens in a somewhat unpredictable climate with local, natural & wild genetics rather than import some eugenic-pure...

I am in London, and nobody could have predicted the poor weather run we have had. The original hive was split in 2, not in 3 or more as you have managed to deduce. How are walkaway splits a cop out?

What have the timings been on yours?

I didn’t observe the Queen when I caught the swarm, but their movements made me sure she was there. There was no marked queen as this was the queenless portion of the split. I have access to eggs in my other hives so am not worried about losing a frame of brood!

There were only two, I did not knock them back. This was a smaller part of the split, and I don’t think I lost the prime swarm, as the swarm I caught was representative of the population in the box (but still a possibility) The hive they swarmed from had a few bees left in it, and that’s about...

This hive was the queenless portion of a walkaway split (13 April). Unfortunately, I had to move it during the process. I observed capped queen cells on the 22nd of April when I moved it. On 9th may, the hive swarmed. I captured the swarm, placed it in a hive with some old comb and...

JEALOUS!

There’s certainly some open but mainly eggs and capped!

It’s a deep and a super of brood, both with 5-6 frames of bees and brood. The frames aren’t laid very full, quite patchy. Large amount of queen cups, and large sections of just drone brood that I don’t see in my other hives. There’s a good amount of nectar and pollen spread across the hive...

So I inspected yesterday and it was an empty queen cup! Some say this is nothing to be concerned with, some say indicative of an intention to swarm or supersede. I will keep an eye on them but no further action required. The laying pattern definitely has me a little concerned. Any comments...

It’s not her!

No eggs in a walkaway split after 33 days now. On day 29 of being queen less, I placed in two frames of eggs, brood and larvae in the centre of the brood nest. 4 days later, there are no queen cells. Either they didn’t have the resources to rear the queen cells (nurse bees)? Or there may be a...

Accident

Only her second year.

I don’t really like the pattern of this queen and they are certainly building queen cups. Will be inspecting ASAP, but the weather has been atrocious.