dscanlan81
New Bee
Hi All,
This'll be my first post - HELLO!
It's my first full year of bee keeping this year as i bought a hive and nuc in July last year and i'm glad to say they've made it through the winter very well.
I had a look in the hive at the weekend as there was quite a bit of activity at the entrance and so thought it would be warm enough.
Anyways... I observed the queen, lots of capped brood, capped honey, and plenty of bees. But i also saw an open queen cell but no drone cells. I'm fairly sure it was a queen cell as it was more oblong shaped and had the entrance at the bottom - am i right? I would have thought that i would see drone cells before a queen cell - is that right?
Also i have put the queen excluder on and both supers so will the additional space postpone the raising of a new queen? I was expecting to split the hive sometime in April so this has brought my plans forward somewhat.
This'll be my first post - HELLO!
It's my first full year of bee keeping this year as i bought a hive and nuc in July last year and i'm glad to say they've made it through the winter very well.
I had a look in the hive at the weekend as there was quite a bit of activity at the entrance and so thought it would be warm enough.
Anyways... I observed the queen, lots of capped brood, capped honey, and plenty of bees. But i also saw an open queen cell but no drone cells. I'm fairly sure it was a queen cell as it was more oblong shaped and had the entrance at the bottom - am i right? I would have thought that i would see drone cells before a queen cell - is that right?
Also i have put the queen excluder on and both supers so will the additional space postpone the raising of a new queen? I was expecting to split the hive sometime in April so this has brought my plans forward somewhat.