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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...

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...

I was taking a few frames of eggs and brood from this hive to try and save a another hive. I took a video of the inspection, and on rewatching I saw this large cell that I didn’t see in person. I will be inspecting as soon as weather gets okay but looks like a queen cell, no?

Hi all, I am an urban beekeeper in London, UK. Our neighbour complained to the council about the volume of bees we had this spring - so had to urgently move some hives to new locations. One of the hives we had to move was a queenless split (not ideal I know) that was made on Tuesday 13th...