I don't believe it! Buckfast bumped off?

[Erichalfbee]

To get back to my point......there was no sign of Queen cells. This is more a case of a newly mated queen getting into an established built up nuc (she must have drifted? Maybe I should re-site my nucs round the corner?), that had a fat laying Buckfast bought from a very respected supplier, UK. Nothing wrong with the queen for 3-4 weeks then hey presto new one has taken up residence! I thought this was not supposed to happen! Surely the bees should have refused entry? I feel that new fat bee queen has killed established Buckfast.

I had an expensive queen in a nuc and next to it I had a Q- split re-queening itself. It had multiple QCs which the bees were supposed to thin down themselves (don't ask....long story but plenty on here will recognise the scenario). A virgin queen, escaping the war in her original box got in and killed my expensive queen. I suspect the bees let her in because they didn't recognise her as a queen, being unmated. Maybe your foreign queen entered as a virgin then went on to mate and become fat whereupon you discovered her?

 

[REDWOOD]

Aggressive bees can be a nightmare to re-queen, sometimes the only way is to keep removing drone cells, bump off the old queen and letting them make their own. Some good reading below from a girl
http://beekeepinglikeagirl.com/how-to-requeen-africanized-bees/

 

[foghornleghorn]

It,s only this year I've had issue's with Buckfast.
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Colleagues are also reporting similar issue's, but again only this year.

Are you talking about many queens? If its a small number pure luck is a big possibility

 

[Truble]

Between two of us we had 5 out of 7 do the same. A small number, I agree. Other years have been fine with similar numbers of queens. Like many things we have just put it down to things happen like this occasionally. The op post brought it to mind that it may not just have been us.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Perhaps it is something in the Trent... a funny fish ore something?

Smells more herby than fishy

 

[For want of a better word]

Smells more herby than fishy

The distinctive aroma of Thyme.??????

Never did get the time to fish the Dee for the Lady of the Stream.... but looking forward to some Manx Kippers next September.

Yeghes da

 

[Gilberdyke John]

I had an expensive queen in a nuc and next to it I had a Q- split re-queening itself. It had multiple QCs which the bees were supposed to thin down themselves (don't ask....long story but plenty on here will recognise the scenario). A virgin queen, escaping the war in her original box got in and killed my expensive queen. I suspect the bees let her in because they didn't recognise her as a queen, being unmated. Maybe your foreign queen entered as a virgin then went on to mate and become fat whereupon you discovered her?

One of Murphy's laws in action?
"what can go wrong will go wrong"

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

The distinctive aroma of Thyme.??????

Never did get the time to fish the Dee for the Lady of the Stream.... but looking forward to some Manx Kippers next September.

Yeghes da

caught a few on the Test at Broadlans a few years ago. Bit distracting when you're trying for a good day on the brownies (as Baden Powell once said)
Manx kippers are the best - get a stone of them if you can - wrap them in pairs and chuck them in the freezer.