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I've been trying to find out what's going on with the 2 poorly hives I have.
There is a low amount of bees in the hives and everytime I try and go to put them into a nucs it's too cold or it rains.
When I checked them there was a small patch of BIAS but close to that there were some cells with 2 eggs placed neatly at the bottom side by side. Not all the cells had 2 eggs in.
The queen was seen in both these hives and open brood and sealed worker brood present so it's not laying workers.
There was space to lay and they aren't really late queens so laying eggs isn't new to them.
I can only think of two possibilities.
1. she is desperate to expand the colony but will not lay where they cannot be kept warm.
2. She has somehow been effected by an illness and lost the plot.
would the workers move eggs around like this ?
I suppose I should be more concerned why the workers haven't removed one.
I haven't looked again but i'm half expecting to find them dead when I do.
Puzzled ...
Anyone got any ideas ?
forgot to say these queens are sisters. This problem is not happening in the parent hive, parent queen was great last year and layed walls of brood in the frames and they were nice bees which is why I used the queen cells.
There is a low amount of bees in the hives and everytime I try and go to put them into a nucs it's too cold or it rains.
When I checked them there was a small patch of BIAS but close to that there were some cells with 2 eggs placed neatly at the bottom side by side. Not all the cells had 2 eggs in.
The queen was seen in both these hives and open brood and sealed worker brood present so it's not laying workers.
There was space to lay and they aren't really late queens so laying eggs isn't new to them.
I can only think of two possibilities.
1. she is desperate to expand the colony but will not lay where they cannot be kept warm.
2. She has somehow been effected by an illness and lost the plot.
would the workers move eggs around like this ?
I suppose I should be more concerned why the workers haven't removed one.
I haven't looked again but i'm half expecting to find them dead when I do.
Puzzled ...
Anyone got any ideas ?
forgot to say these queens are sisters. This problem is not happening in the parent hive, parent queen was great last year and layed walls of brood in the frames and they were nice bees which is why I used the queen cells.
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