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Is there a point of no return for a colony? In other words, if a virgin queen takes a while to mate after an AS, and by the time she starts laying, there are no more nurse bees, only foragers, is the hive doomed? Or do some of the foragers return to being nurse bees? And i think i just had a...

May sound like a silly question. How long from the time of hatching, until i should start to see eggs from a virgin queen?

Hey all Did my first artificial swarm last saturday as the bee's had loads of queen cells, both capped and uncapped with larvae and jelly. Just checked on them and found the following: No eggs at all in either hive. Both hives have house and flying bees. Both have plenty of pollen and honey...

Hey All. Got my first hive about a month back. 4 frame Nuc, tightly packed. I placed them and left them for 2 days to settle. Transferred them from the travel hive to their new home (Smith Brood) I have been checking them each saturday and they are doing fine. Stocks are coming in, and eggs are...