Comedy Beekeeping

[Beagle23]

I mentioned in an earlier thread that I though my main hive was queenless following a split, and that I would be adding the queen from the split to the main hive. So she went in earlier today together with three frames of capped brood and workers.
I removed two mostly empty frames and one that was packed with pollen, nectar and honey. This last frame I left outside the hive so that the stores could be transferred.
This evening I noticed that the frame was still packed with workers and in order to get it out of the way of our resident foxes, I picked it up to transfer to my NUC overnight - and what did I see.......a queen in the process of laying.
So I’m back where I started the day, but my queens and numerous workers have changed places. Time will tell whether I’ve caused chaos

 

[Fritillary]

But - you did find her! Hope all goes well...

 

[mickbees23]

They nearly always make a new queen. Us bee keepers are way to fast to try and intervene and often cause problems for the bees that they don't.
Give them time, 6 weeks is not unusual...!

Cheers, Mick.

 

[Millet]

I did a boo boo last year through being impatient, i put a frame of eggs and brood into a laying worker colony, they quickly made Queen cells, after a couple of weeks the single Queen cell had emerged, i left them a further 3wks and nothing, these where very angry bees and i wanted rid of them so i shook the lot out on the ground to reclaim the brood box leaving just a super on the original spot for the bees to go into and slowly die of, after a further few weeks the bee numbers where rising and the bees where very calm, i decided to go through the super and much to my amazement i spotted capped worker brood and then a fat mated Queen, luckily i did not damage her shaking the bees out and luckily she found her way back into the hive.
From now on i will leave well alone for a lot longer.