Confession Time

[Brigsy]

Great news.

 

[Tremyfro]

Hey...that's wonderful Ericalfbee....

 

[Erichalfbee]

How about this from LASI.....great stuff

I am sorry for you to have invalid queen and delay your colony performance.

Please, don't worry. You will receive a mated queen soon with six legs. I will try my best to send you one ASAP.

 

[For want of a better word]

as Jack would say - that's what comes from buying magic beans! never mind, if it's any consolation I have a brood of unicorns just hatching - shall I keep you a pink one

Most of my queens are leggless... particularly after a wiff of CO2 !!

Good luck with your bought in beens!!

Yeghes da

 

[Cussword]

How about this from LASI.....great stuff

I am sorry for you to have invalid queen and delay your colony performance.

Please, don't worry. You will receive a mated queen soon with six legs. I will try my best to send you one ASAP.

Nice one, was your original queen mated?

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[madasafish]

Well done.

I hope the replacement queen has all six legs attached and not one in a separate box..

Meanwhile the Queen with 5 legs in the Assocaition Apairy has been inspected this am and is still busy laying. Her super is half full..

 

[Erichalfbee]

Nice one, was your original queen mated?

.

Indeed she was sold as such

 

[Erichalfbee]

Well done.

I hope the replacement queen has all six legs attached and not one in a separate box..

Meanwhile the Queen with 5 legs in the Assocaition Apairy has been inspected this am and is still busy laying. Her super is half full..

Which leg has she missing though?

 

[Obee1]

Erica is your quindexter queen still alive - and laying?

 

[Erichalfbee]

I last looked in on Tuesday
She was ambling about with her circle of attendants looking into cells; NOT laying.
I removed her empty introduction cage 6 days before that......

 

[madasafish]

Which leg has she missing though?

Left rear

 

[Obee1]

I last looked in on Tuesday
She was ambling about with her circle of attendants looking into cells; NOT laying.
I removed her empty introduction cage 6 days before that......

I had two mated queens who were out of their push in cages for 6 days - not laying though. Looked in on day 8 and they were gone- bees shrugging shoulders denying all knowledge!

 

[Erichalfbee]

I'll see on Monday and report back

 

[Tremyfro]

I had two mated queens who were out of their push in cages for 6 days - not laying though. Looked in on day 8 and they were gone- bees shrugging shoulders denying all knowledge!

Oops...hope they weren't your specials!

 

[Obee1]

Oops...hope they weren't your specials!

Sadly yes . Two of my specials. The rest of the batch is doing ok. We await QC from Freda breeder.

 

[Erichalfbee]

I had two mated queens who were out of their push in cages for 6 days - not laying though. Looked in on day 8 and they were gone- bees shrugging shoulders denying all knowledge!

My LASI queen is dead on the ground outside the hive and there is a small (virgin?) black queen strolling about the frames!
One of the 25 I sprung from a Wally Shaw split 6 days ago?

I hope she keeps them happy till the new Sussex queen comes and I hope she is the only one in there!
You couldn't make it up
I had more luck as a beginner

Husband has just said that the more you learn and the more complicated you make anything the more can go wrong.
I don't know......I often don't have a clue.

 

[Obee1]

My LASI queen is dead on the ground outside the hive and there is a small (virgin?) black queen strolling about the frames!
One of the 25 I sprung from a Wally Shaw split 6 days ago?

I hope she keeps them happy till the new Sussex queen comes and I hope she is the only one in there!
You couldn't make it up
I had more luck as a beginner

Husband has just said that the more you learn and the more complicated you make anything the more can go wrong.
I don't know......I often don't have a clue.

Oops. Sounds like a virgin from the wally split. At least your legless queen was probably doomed to failure anyway. Far more upsetting if it happened to your replacement LASI queen.

I do think husband has a point! All this endless 'researching' on t'internet just gives me more things to try - and fail at. My superbee plans are not going well. Two of my three mated queens failed to lay any eggs and both the virgins got mated then disappeared. Four superbees from the delivery are all laying so it's just these two of mine that didnt. So that was one very expensive superbee queen I ended up with! Pinning my hopes on Freda breeder queen now. At least she's not under my care so her chances of success are higher!

 

[Erichalfbee]

What I need is an out apiary to do all my manipulations in but I think that if I tried to expand my horizons I might just see my beloved on a different horizon

 

[Obee1]

What I need is an out apiary to do all my manipulations in but I think that if I tried to expand my horizons I might just see my beloved on a different horizon

So.... Out apiary it is! I have similar with my husband. Bees take up too much of my time- but he loves gardening and too many hives in the garden mean he can't potter to his hearts content. Therefore out apiary works for me. I am just coming to the realisation that all these hives I had to have are possibly too many for me to manage without taking up all my spare time. Must be said though that you definitely need a second site to do some hive manipulating. Just don't go mad like I did and end up with 10 on there and three at home.

 

[Tremyfro]

So.... Out apiary it is! I have similar with my husband. Bees take up too much of my time- but he loves gardening and too many hives in the garden mean he can't potter to his hearts content. Therefore out apiary works for me. I am just coming to the realisation that all these hives I had to have are possibly too many for me to manage without taking up all my spare time. Must be said though that you definitely need a second site to do some hive manipulating. Just don't go mad like I did and end up with 10 on there and three at home.

My God...Obee1....where do you find the time....plus it's exhausting doing all the inspections...writing all the notes...making kit!
I thought 4 with 3 nucs was more than enough!....and I will combine some of those this Autumn.