how long before a queen gets laying ?

[citrus]

Say you took a sealed qc and brood into a nuc .. and left it to emerge ..

could you see fresh eggs 7 days later ?

(have created two nuc's and to increase and also try to practice queen finding skills in a smaller environment !)

 

[Murox]

No.

 

[Swarm]

Wow, what a helpful reply.
Think about it. When was the cell capped? 16 days from egg to emergence, mating flights, etc.
It generally takes a few weeks before you will see eggs.

 

[citrus]

Wow, what a helpful reply.
Think about it. When was the cell capped? 16 days from egg to emergence, mating flights, etc.
It generally takes a few weeks before you will see eggs.

well tbh .. I rather hastily did the two nuc's one of which had a queen cell and one of which just had eggs taken from the top of a brood box in a demarree which I thought was a rogue worker ... (discussed here
https://beekeepingforum.co.uk/showpost.php?p=670664&postcount=26

in my panic I didnt mark up the nucs so kind of forgot what is what ...

the answer (resounding no) helps me solves that so thanks for that

 

[Murox]

Wow, what a helpful reply.
Think about it. When was the cell capped? 16 days from egg to emergence, mating flights, etc.
It generally takes a few weeks before you will see eggs.

Thank you Swarm - it was rather bunt.

 

[mintmoth]

This is what I was told:

newly emerged queen needs a week to mature - 7 days

at least one day to mate - 1 day

two days of sperm storage and egg development - 2 days

so the earliest she will start to lay equals =10 days

if weather is poor may take up to 19 days