BeeJayBee
Queen Bee
Taken from this thread http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=22281. I didn't want to stray too far from the original question.
If not, what's the normal thing to do?
If you do find queen cells at the bottom of the frames in the upper brood box do you then check each frame more carefully, and also those in the lower box?Hi thorn, one thing I have learnt with running on double brood is that you hardly ever need to inspect the lower BB only if you are concerned. The more experienced simply split the two BB’s like a hinge and if they don’t see evidence of QC’s on the bottom of the top frames then that’s the inspection over. I have done a couple of inspections like this but it takes a bit of nerve.
If not, what's the normal thing to do?