Luka22
House Bee
Hi,
I have checked our Nuc yesterday and found a nice shaped QC. I would guess it will be capped in 1 or 2 days, maybe even today. I could not see a Queen, so I have to assume that the Queen is gone or dead. We do have huge problems with wasp, so she might have been killed by them. I have now got 1 Apidea which I think is ready with a mated Queen. My original plan was to make another nuc out of the Apidea, with frames from my strong colony, but I wonder now, if I should move the Queen into the Nuc instead because it starts to get late in the year? The QC looks very good, so it's a bit of a shame to destroy it and how big is the risk that the Nuc would kill the new Queen, since they have build the QC already?
Look forward to some advice.
I have checked our Nuc yesterday and found a nice shaped QC. I would guess it will be capped in 1 or 2 days, maybe even today. I could not see a Queen, so I have to assume that the Queen is gone or dead. We do have huge problems with wasp, so she might have been killed by them. I have now got 1 Apidea which I think is ready with a mated Queen. My original plan was to make another nuc out of the Apidea, with frames from my strong colony, but I wonder now, if I should move the Queen into the Nuc instead because it starts to get late in the year? The QC looks very good, so it's a bit of a shame to destroy it and how big is the risk that the Nuc would kill the new Queen, since they have build the QC already?
Look forward to some advice.