patl
New Bee
Ok, so the background is that this hive contains a swarm that was presumed to be the prime swarm from a friend's hive and was housed 16 days ago along with a couple of frames from our other hive (which may have contained brood). Inspecting it today there appears to be no queen and no brood or eggs as far as I can see although they do appear to have laid down a lot of stores. Is it possible that either there was no queen or the queen didn't make it and that this is a subsequent emergency queen cell which has just hatched?