New Queen & Possible Supercedure Cell

[gwt_uk]

Hello all,

I recently purchased and introduced a new mated queen into a queenless colony. On checking today the new queen is laying well. However I spotted a small queen cup with larvae and jelly in it in the centre of a frame - Possible supercedure?

Shall I leave them to it? Keen to know thoughts on next steps please?

 

[Anduril]

You have paid money for a queen, remove the charged cell and keep up your routine checks for anymore charged cells and remove. Look at the laying pattern of your new queen.

 

[GuyNir]

I’d remove once or twice (if the brood pattern is good), if it continues, I’d leave them to it.

 

[Curly green finger's]

but I've a feeling they will continue to supersed.

 

[gwt_uk]

I’d remove once or twice (if the brood pattern is good), if it continues, I’d leave them to it.

Thanks. I will remove the charged cell. Should I keep to 7 day inspections on this colony or have a check on them in 3-4 days?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I’d remove once or twice (if the brood pattern is good), if it continues, I’d leave them to it.

sometimes bees feel 'uncomfortable' with an introduced queen and try and raise their own. Tearing down the QC, even two or three times if they persist often works and they will settle down with her. If they persist then let them supersede her

 

[GuyNir]

Thanks. I will remove the charged cell. Should I keep to 7 day inspections on this colony or have a check on them in 3-4 days?

I’d keep normal inspections schedule.

 

[Finman]

Australians have researched, that if the queen had been taken off from the mating nuc under 2 week laying, 30% of colonies supercede the new queen.
Then, if the queen has been sent via air or via ground, again 30% out of queens are superceded .

My own experiences are , that in two cases when I bought 4 and 5 queens from Italy, ALL
queens were under superceding inside one month.

My opinion is that the colony is not satified to the new queen and they are going to replace it. Why, no one knows except the bees. Let the queen cell be there and rear a queen from it.
You may mate the cell queen over the excluder. You put the entrance to the opposite direction.. You get a proper queen from it. And you may kill the bought queen and do what ever to it.

My experience is that if you try to keep unwanted queen in the hive, colony renew it in winter and you will have drone layer in spring.

 

[Finman]

sometimes bees feel 'uncomfortable' with an introduced queen and try and raise their own. Tearing down the QC, even two or three times if they persist often works and they will settle down with her. If they persist then let them supersede her

That is too an alternative way to proceed and to see, are they going to supercede the queen. Summer may be too short to see, what bees finally want.