Jaxxmac
New Bee
- Joined
- Aug 22, 2019
- Messages
- 23
- Reaction score
- 9
- Location
- Cornwall
- Hive Type
- Langstroth
- Number of Hives
- 1
I could do with some expertise please. Around mid July I found a lovely Queen cell in my hive. My original red spot queen had been laying but the brood pattern was patchy and there was a lot of drone brood. I left them to their devices for 3 weeks and checked in and there was a lovely new Queen but no eggs and a lot of drones, no sign of old Queen so hurrah for nature! Thinking it was too early for her to be laying I gave it 2 weeks and checked in this morning. Lots of lovely capped and uncapped brood, eggs, still a lot of drones and 2 queens. So, do I split them before they swarm or leave them be? No pun intended. Thanks all.