Tabby15
House Bee
- Joined
- Jun 4, 2013
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- 162
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- Location
- Eastleigh Hampshire
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 2
My first ever hive swarmed last Friday (in the morning - I was planning to split it in the afternoon - oh well!)
Anyway on inspection of the remainder we found three queen cells, knocked down two and left one. I carefully checked mid week and it had not yet hatched.
Today we did inspection and it had hatched but no sign of the queen (we went through twice but I know that may mean nothing) There were no eggs but there were three more queen cells. The bees were also quite bad tempered which I think indicates there is no queen?
Does this mean the queen failed? Does this mean they will be "afterthought" queens. I have knocked one down but left two (as leaving one seems not to have worked)
Anyway on inspection of the remainder we found three queen cells, knocked down two and left one. I carefully checked mid week and it had not yet hatched.
Today we did inspection and it had hatched but no sign of the queen (we went through twice but I know that may mean nothing) There were no eggs but there were three more queen cells. The bees were also quite bad tempered which I think indicates there is no queen?
Does this mean the queen failed? Does this mean they will be "afterthought" queens. I have knocked one down but left two (as leaving one seems not to have worked)