Blue Spinnaker
House Bee
- Joined
- Feb 21, 2010
- Messages
- 241
- Reaction score
- 0
- Location
- Staffordshire
- Hive Type
- 14x12
- Number of Hives
- 1 + 1 nuc
Hi,
Could someone shed some light on what is going on, and my best course of action, if any? I can't get my head round the dates and times, and it may be just me panicking.
My colony was created from another using a queen cell and frames of stores and brood. On 12th June the cell was capped, by 26th it was open, so I assumed she was out there. The bees are very calm, however on Tues there were no eggs, and not having seen the queen I put a test frame in. Today there seems to be a play cup (not on the test frame) but no sign of them building a queen cell on the test frame.
Could I still have a virgin queen in there, and if not, how soon would I expect to see a queen cell after putting in the test frame?
Thanks for your thoughts.
Could someone shed some light on what is going on, and my best course of action, if any? I can't get my head round the dates and times, and it may be just me panicking.
My colony was created from another using a queen cell and frames of stores and brood. On 12th June the cell was capped, by 26th it was open, so I assumed she was out there. The bees are very calm, however on Tues there were no eggs, and not having seen the queen I put a test frame in. Today there seems to be a play cup (not on the test frame) but no sign of them building a queen cell on the test frame.
Could I still have a virgin queen in there, and if not, how soon would I expect to see a queen cell after putting in the test frame?
Thanks for your thoughts.