Anthony.
New Bee
Hi all,
Our second colony was new to us this year but taken from a colleague with many hives.
The colony has filled the brood and storing well in the super.
Long story short we’ve been queenless for approximately 3 weeks now (no eggs , no larvae and no queen sightings at all during this period). We’ve put two frames of eggs in from our other colony (1 per week) and although there’s currently circa 2-3 queen cells on the first frame we put in they haven’t done anything with the second frame of eggs.
My question is : do we persevere with putting frames in and hope we get a queen and she mates in time, or would folk recommend trying to source one online?
If it was earlier in the season I would clearly prefer to avoid online but we are just worried given how late in the season it is.
Thanks in advance!
Our second colony was new to us this year but taken from a colleague with many hives.
The colony has filled the brood and storing well in the super.
Long story short we’ve been queenless for approximately 3 weeks now (no eggs , no larvae and no queen sightings at all during this period). We’ve put two frames of eggs in from our other colony (1 per week) and although there’s currently circa 2-3 queen cells on the first frame we put in they haven’t done anything with the second frame of eggs.
My question is : do we persevere with putting frames in and hope we get a queen and she mates in time, or would folk recommend trying to source one online?
If it was earlier in the season I would clearly prefer to avoid online but we are just worried given how late in the season it is.
Thanks in advance!
