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Here we again, talk about a rollercoaster and sorry to ask but I could do with a bit of advice. My new queen in my 'problem' hive has emerged (would have been about the 16th of August) and this was clear when I checked yesterday. There are no eggs at present and I know it's early days but how...

Hi there I'll try to keep a long story short and this may be a really stupid question. My virgin queen finally came good and came in to lay about 7 weeks after I saw her run in (I have a theory that it took that long because she's a bit of a munter and the drones decided it was her or nothing...

Hi folks My problem colony again....haven't seen eggs in there since the 8th of July although that day there were two charged queen cups on the bottom of a frame which I broke down and rifled through, seeing nothing in them. On the 15th there were several sealed queen cells but pretty miserable...

So before the dramatic sting reaction (see other thread) I went in to my dodgy colony today and found several sealed queen cells, all looking pretty poor and small. There were no unsealed cells apart from maybe one which was tiny and is only a possible. Last Sunday I found two cups charged...

Was just finishing with hive number two today when I got stung on the chin through my veil...thought 'ouch' but didn't think any more about it until about fifteen minutes later I felt as if my whole body was on fire, itchy, eyelids swelling, ears thrumming. Dashed home and got some prescribed...