Chris Tel
New Bee
- Joined
- Jul 26, 2011
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- Location
- Birmingham
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 18
Have a double brood which is brimming with bees. Last week noticed a couple of queen cells uncapped on the face of a single comb. I assumed they were signs of supersedure so left well alone. 5 days later (last night) decided to open up and bees still there and now there are approximately another couple of frames with signs of uncapped and capped QCs. In total across the two boxes probably about 7-8 QCs and nearly all of them on the face of the comb. Signs of eggs but not as prolific as it was. Two supers are almost filled and a third was added last night. Have also been swapping brood boxes to try and prevent swarming from occuring. So the question is do I leave well alone and assume this is supersedure or should I take precaution. I assumed that if it was going to swarm it would have done already and they'll be a large number of cells hanging from the bottom bars (but there aren't).....thoughts?