Destroying supercedure cells yay or nay?

[simonwig]

Update on my nuc and single QC.
Inspected today, 8 days (for various reasons) after my last inspection, when the QC was sealed.
No eggs, some very young larvae, and no sign of the marked queen (or a virgin).
Not obvious from bee numbers if the nuc has swarmed on one QC, but (somewhat surprisingly) looks likely.
Will look again for mated queen in a couple of weeks.

Simon

 

[ericbeaumont]

no sign of the marked queen

Was the old queen clipped?

 

[simonwig]

Was the old queen clipped?

No.
S

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

could be an imperfect supersedure - bees don't always wait for the new queen to emerge and get mated before topping the old one.

 

[simonwig]

Further update.
Nice new queen seen today with a lot of eggs and larvae, fingers crossed it's worker.
Simon

 

[gregior]

Well it turns out the bees do know best after all the queen they were trying to supercede has died/gone awol and i'm left with emergency cells.Will let the bees decide from now on.