wondervet
House Bee
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- Aug 8, 2010
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- Location
- west yorkshire
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 6
Slightly odd situation. We have a Q- hive with a single queen cell due to hatch in 2-3 days time. They weren't strong enough to split so we culled the old queen 4 days ago. Knocked down all but one queen cell on same day and then repeated procedure today (they had produced another 6 or 7 charged QCs in the meantime).
Question is can we now just leave them alone for a couple of weeks while virgin queen hatches and gets mated (and assume that she will take care of any further QC produced on 4 day larvae) or is it wise to inspect again -and if so, when? (In 3 days to catch further QCs before capped?).
What would you do?
Question is can we now just leave them alone for a couple of weeks while virgin queen hatches and gets mated (and assume that she will take care of any further QC produced on 4 day larvae) or is it wise to inspect again -and if so, when? (In 3 days to catch further QCs before capped?).
What would you do?