Why? Anytime I've dealt with swarming, the remaining colony was always found to have capped or soon to be capped, swarm cells or SS cells. This time, I only found cups with 1 day old eggs in both deeps.
Backstory
Yesterday, I was headed out to split, add another box or put on supers, a colony, bcuz they were getting full.
Walked out to find mass of bees in process of swarming into my tree. Couldn't tell where they were coming from.
I went back thru that particular colony, lookin for queen, and found Queen cups with 1 day old eggs. No actual queen cells. Still full of bees.
And they were roaring.
Why would there only be 1 day old eggs in QC's, not drawn out Queen cells?
Backstory
Yesterday, I was headed out to split, add another box or put on supers, a colony, bcuz they were getting full.
Walked out to find mass of bees in process of swarming into my tree. Couldn't tell where they were coming from.
I went back thru that particular colony, lookin for queen, and found Queen cups with 1 day old eggs. No actual queen cells. Still full of bees.
And they were roaring.
Why would there only be 1 day old eggs in QC's, not drawn out Queen cells?