Away flies the Queen.....

[JonnyPicklechin]

Was very excited to see one of my suspect queenless with a nice fat queen wandering about....I grabbed and walked off to mark her but as I was popping her in the cage....off she flew away into the sun....a lovely sight, like a swarm, but sad at the same time, like a swarm....

Where will she go? It seems too late that she took a lift for a possible mating flight at 6 o'clock in the evening....

Will she find another hive? Or is she lost forever?

I have a queen in a NUC which I can use....

Hohum....

 

[masterBK]

Quite often they find their way home. She will have recently been on several orientation and mating flights so there is a good chance that next time you look you may find her. I lost one in a similar way a few weeks ago (she flew off after marking. She didn't find her way home but turned up in a nearby nucleus that I had set up the day before ready for a ripe queen cell.

 

[JonnyPicklechin]

Quite often they find their way home. She will have recently been on several orientation and mating flights so there is a good chance that next time you look you may find her. I lost one in a similar way a few weeks ago (she flew off after marking. She didn't find her way home but turned up in a nearby nucleus that I had set up the day before ready for a ripe queen cell.

Well...she did come back...

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[jenkinsbrynmair]

A salutary lesson - never walk off with the queen to cage her. Do everything over the hive.

 

[JonnyPicklechin]

A salutary lesson - never walk off with the queen to cage her. Do everything over the hive.

Aye...Another experience chalked up...

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[Poly Hive]

Keep in mind the last marker she saw was YOU.

So don't be too quick to leave the spot.

PH