- Joined
- Mar 1, 2009
- Messages
- 1,065
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- Location
- S Warwickshire, uk
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 40
Watching the hive entrance today of one colony, lots of drones zig-zagging in front and having to persevere to be let back in.
Anything to be learnt from this?
I thought drones were welcome until later in the year. I'm sure I had colonies with drones in late september 2009.
The colony is (hopefully) waiting for a queen to come into lay - nice area of polished empty cells in the brood box but she's pushing the limit in terms of delay between hatching and producing eggs as I think it is 21+ days now.
Anything to be learnt from this?
I thought drones were welcome until later in the year. I'm sure I had colonies with drones in late september 2009.
The colony is (hopefully) waiting for a queen to come into lay - nice area of polished empty cells in the brood box but she's pushing the limit in terms of delay between hatching and producing eggs as I think it is 21+ days now.