juanito
House Bee
- Joined
- Jan 2, 2014
- Messages
- 138
- Reaction score
- 0
- Location
- albox almeria
- Hive Type
- Other
- Number of Hives
- 2
Greetings from sunny spain,
On the second of April I made a split from our best hive, 3 frames of mixed brood and one of stores, Then filled up with wired foundation, on the last inspection 3rd May there were no eggs visible to my rather unreliable eyes, it has been doom and gloom since that day,
today however, on inspection without smoke!! to my surprise and relief there is capped brood on both sides of one frame and a rather nice circle of brood on the frame next to it,
I do realise that all the teachings are to use a capped queen cell or to introduce a new queen, but the young chap who sold me the hives was adamant that this way was just fine,
every day is a school day,
PS when does one graduate from being a beginner ?
pps, Enrico, muchisimo gracias for the reassurance.
On the second of April I made a split from our best hive, 3 frames of mixed brood and one of stores, Then filled up with wired foundation, on the last inspection 3rd May there were no eggs visible to my rather unreliable eyes, it has been doom and gloom since that day,
today however, on inspection without smoke!! to my surprise and relief there is capped brood on both sides of one frame and a rather nice circle of brood on the frame next to it,
I do realise that all the teachings are to use a capped queen cell or to introduce a new queen, but the young chap who sold me the hives was adamant that this way was just fine,
every day is a school day,
PS when does one graduate from being a beginner ?
pps, Enrico, muchisimo gracias for the reassurance.
