New queen...laying already??

[thebhoy]

Set up a nuc a week and half ago with uncapped queen cell, checked on Sunday and it was still capped, checked today and found eggs and a lovely big queen.....very surprised to have eggs already and watched her go along checking cells. Seen a couple with two eggs in...before seeing queen and thought I may have a laying worker....

I thought it would be a bit longer before I seen eggs.........but all seems calm

 

[Finman]

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From emerging to laying it takes 10 days minimum. You have had emerged queen when you got the nuc.

It cannot come out from uncapped queen cell. It takes almost 10 days from capping to emerge.

If the hive has queen or queen cells, hive has no laying workers.

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[thebhoy]

Finman ...your a genius sir

after your post I have just gone and checked the nuc thoroughly and found the old queen I thought was gone when I set it up when re-queening original hive after attempted swarm (clipped queen).

also found my nice shiny new queen still there

Cheers again Finman

 

[Finman]

Finman ...your a genius sir

after your post I have just gone and checked the nuc thoroughly and found the old queen I thought was gone when I set it up when re-queening original hive after attempted swarm (clipped queen).

also found my nice shiny new queen still there

Cheers again Finman

That is good timing!

But it sounds that old queen is not much able to lay any more.