Nuc/ Colony wanted south Shropshire area.

[Curly green fingers]

Temperament has been some what nasty as well as the Inspection's have gone on to. When you say restrict could I use a Q excluder cut down to restrict the new Queen? I get the idea.

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I just wanted to add I twated a hornet last night with a spade against the fence there was another one about tonight..

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[Curly green fingers]

From past experience with Q- hives which had produced laying workers on two occasions and in doing so produced a lot of drones, and i would have thought that them drones need feeding.

At the moment Steve my girls haven't got laying workers. There is sealed brood 7 frames I counted 16 drone brood on all frames. 2 QC still in larvae form. So there's no room at the moment . so hopefully that won't happen.

 

[Millet]

At the moment Steve my girls haven't got laying workers. There is sealed brood 7 frames I counted 16 drone brood on all frames. 2 QC still in larvae form. So there's no room at the moment . so hopefully that won't happen.

I was unlucky and you are not if you have Queen cells, my bad luck was through virgin Queens not returning from mating flights (i blame the amount of Swallows) on the Queen cells i would remove one and keep the best when they are capped, i pushed my luck last year by leaving two, bad move i found one virgin half dead at the entrance, then a small swarm left the hive as i missed a Queen cell buried into the come which resembled a drone cell, that also failed to return from a mating flight and that was my second laying worker colony, these little darling's sure do keep you on your toes..

 

[enrico]

But then again I opened three capped queen cells today that I had been given in my recent turmoils and all three were empty!!

 

[Curly green fingers]

Tell me about it . and I'm getting more this is a proper hobby

 

[Curly green fingers]

I was unlucky and you are not if you have Queen cells, my bad luck was through virgin Queens not returning from mating flights (i blame the amount of Swallows) on the Queen cells i would remove one and keep the best when they are capped, i pushed my luck last year by leaving two, bad move i found one virgin half dead at the entrance, then a small swarm left the hive as i missed a Queen cell buried into the come which resembled a drone cell, that also failed to return from a mating flight and that was my second laying worker colony, these little darling's sure do keep you on your toes..

What did you do to put it right ?

 

[Millet]

But then again I opened three capped queen cells today that I had been given in my recent turmoils and all three were empty!!

I have seen a dried out dead Queen larvae in one Queen cell but i have not seen a empty uncapped cell with anything in it , maybe your source of Queen cells or brood was not from a required strain.

 

[Millet]

What did you do to put it right ?

A full frame of egg's and brood was placed in there from a good colony..the rest is history..

 

[Curly green fingers]

A full frame of egg's and brood was placed in there from a good colony..the rest is history..

I'm getting notifications from Tapatalk quicker than I can write annoying changing between the two
So in worse case sinario I can add eggs and sealed brood . what do you think about me adding sealed brood now from the other hives I'm getting or letting hopefully a maiden do her thing and build the brood back up?