OP
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- Location
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- Hive Type
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Thanks for the input, all of you.
I noticed this evening as I was putting the frames of pollen into the freezer, that they seem to have sealed it with a thin glaze. Is that indicative of anything about their status, good or bad ?
Otherwise, here is what I propose to do -
1. Leave the old queen well enough alone and hope she continues the good work. We have b.i.a.s. at the moment.
2. Leave both sides of the split alone until two weeks from now, 11th of June. That is five weeks from 7th May when I left them each with a single sealed cell.
3. At that date, it will have been four weeks since I left my other colony (queen disappeared) with an unsealed queen cell.
If this second colony has brought on a laying queen it gives me more options.
Meanwhile, the old queen colony will hopefully have developed well, and be able to bear a) the donation of a frame to one side of my split, and b) a uniting with the other half.
Does that sound reasonable ?
I noticed this evening as I was putting the frames of pollen into the freezer, that they seem to have sealed it with a thin glaze. Is that indicative of anything about their status, good or bad ?
Otherwise, here is what I propose to do -
1. Leave the old queen well enough alone and hope she continues the good work. We have b.i.a.s. at the moment.
2. Leave both sides of the split alone until two weeks from now, 11th of June. That is five weeks from 7th May when I left them each with a single sealed cell.
3. At that date, it will have been four weeks since I left my other colony (queen disappeared) with an unsealed queen cell.
If this second colony has brought on a laying queen it gives me more options.
Meanwhile, the old queen colony will hopefully have developed well, and be able to bear a) the donation of a frame to one side of my split, and b) a uniting with the other half.
Does that sound reasonable ?
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