I belong in the beginners section :-( Supersedure.. I think not!

[birdsandbees]

Well, after reading another thread here's my confession...

I can vouch for 'classic' Supersedure cells not also being swarm cells, I had a failing queen (looked injured), they made three decent cells on the face of the comb, next time I went in failing queen had gone (not swarmed) and no eggs only young larvae, so I reduced to one decent cell and left them to it, what I should have done is gone back into them as they'd made other cells and yesterday when I arrived at the apiary they started spewing out swarms! two in quick succession!
these two joined together as one bigger swarm, once I had managed to contain them I know there was multiple virgins as two full Nucs later with Virgin queens (as I saw them going in) there was still a small swarm remaining that was moving between trees.

Once I'd gotten into the hive I shook the bees from the frames and found further cells, none of which were on the bottom of frames each containing a fully formed active queen (which I caged bar one)

Lesson learned and I wont be making that silly mistake again!

Never assume you know what they are thinking!!!

 

[enrico]

Good to share it, thanks. It helps others.
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[Swarm]

 

[Bakerbee]

I agree thanks for sharing.

 

[Stiffy]

I treat superseded cells like a fart......don’t trust them!!

 

[philipm]

Like Forrest Gump said Sh*t happens.

 

[birdsandbees]

Thanks for the supportive comments, I guess it could have been much worse, I just hadn't planned to split that colony as they weren't even that big.

Yesterday evening I went through another very strong double brood hive which I split last weekend, these were in swarm mode and I'd reduced to one good cell, absolutely no surprise in that one finding around 12 additional capped cells.

It's just one of those perpetuated myths that needs to be killed off I always doubted it but now I've experienced it.