2 charged q cell advice please

[Cuckmere couple]

its our favourite q who has done wonders this year and last and we moved into a nuc because of swarm cells a week or so ago

today found 2 single charged q cells in the nuc and she'd laid up 3 frames of brood v fast

are these likely to be supersedure and we should leave them?

shes at least 2 years old and both were down the side of different frames rather than on the face of frame....

 

[Erichalfbee]

its our favourite q who has done wonders this year and last and we moved into a nuc because of swarm cells a week or so ago

today found 2 single charged q cells in the nuc and she'd laid up 3 frames of brood v fast

are these likely to be supersedure and we should leave them?

shes at least 2 years old and both were down the side of different frames rather than on the face of frame....

If this hive was mine I would take a frame of brood out and give it back to the hive you split her from( I presume it’s requeening?). Replace with an empty brood frame. Take down the queen cells and look again in three days. If they are serious in replacing her then they will build more.strange how folk consider a 2yo queen old. I have one who is still laying like a train in her 4th year.

 

[Cuckmere couple]

thats a nice idea

will give it a go

 

[Cuckmere couple]

...and yes...original colony now has a q cell from this queen