New Queen, very little eggs

mocko · Jun 12, 2012

Hi All,

Posted on Monday that I thought both of my hives from an AS we're queenless. Found now eggs or queen present, went in today to put a test frame in each but found two large queens with a few sporadic eggs on the central frames. This is roughly 2 weeks after the queens hatched from the queen cells.

Do all queens start laying slow or sporadically or could I possibly end up with a DLQ?

Your thoughts would be appreciated!

Thanks

Andy

Poly Hive · Jun 12, 2012

Yes.

No.

Patience.

Given the weather they have done well. They will do even better with out the 'keeper prying every ten minutes.

PH

mocko · Jun 12, 2012

Yes I realised that now! I'm certainly no expert! The weather was Perfect for mating where I was a few weeks back.

BeeJayBee · Jun 12, 2012

mocko said:
The weather was Perfect for mating where I was a few weeks back.

That's far too much information!

Luminos · Jun 12, 2012

BeeJoyful said:
That's far too much information!

mocko · Jun 12, 2012

BeeJoyful said:
That's far too much information!

Oh wash your mouth out :drool5:

Pooh Bear · Jun 12, 2012

I'm in a similar position waiting to see if Queens have mated... patience I believe is the key... After emerging it could take 4 weeks, I read somewhere on the internet today...