ive made a cock up and need some advice

[stephenpug]

well i could not wait any longer so i have had a look in the nuc box to find fresh eggs capped brood and a peach of an open queen cell but there just was not time to create a new laying queen so i looked into the donor hive and found the queen in there happily doing her thing, so the only thing i can think of is as the original hive was so full there must have been 2 queens in it and i must have put one of them into the nuc
or has anyone else got any ideas as to where all the new eggs have come from ???

 

[Skyhook]

2 possibilities I can think of- either a) they were in mid-supercedure, and you got lucky- but in that case surprising that they built a queen cell, or b) they have raised queen cells over a period- the laying queen is from one of the first, the one you saw was a later back-up.

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[stephenpug]

2 possibilities I can think of- either a) they were in mid-supercedure, and you got lucky- but in that case surprising that they built a queen cell, or b) they have raised queen cells over a period- the laying queen is from one of the first, the one you saw was a later back-up.

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skyhook this certainly is a steep learning curve

 

[Skyhook]

skyhook this certainly is a steep learning curve

iT SURE IS- DON'T ASSUME i'M RIGHT!

 

[beeno]

Hi Stephenpug,
Well, that avoids the chance of getting a scrub queen! Who's a lucky boy then?

 

[stephenpug]

Hi Stephenpug,
Well, that avoids the chance of getting a scrub queen! Who's a lucky boy then?