queen introduction gone mad

[snelgrove]

A strange thing happened today when trying to introduce a mated queen I will try and explain the best I can. I have a colony that turned into a drone layer so I killed the drone layer and introduced a mated queen in a cage. this queen was killed, with emergency cells started. therefore I thought I would give it another go and destroyed cells and waited a week. Now with a mated queen in a cage I am about to put this queen in into a introduction Cage that presses into the comb but she takes flight. I stand back and a queen lands on the frames unmarked, the introduced queen had disc glued on . I therefore presume the disc fell off with the queen taking flight, I catch here cage her and place between frames.
Then I notice a ball of bees on alighting board it's the marked queen she's caged and used elsewhere. . My conclusion is they superseded the drone layer and she was out on a mating flight.

 

[Erichalfbee]

That's what I would diagnose.
I have a new queen laying mostly drone and some worker.
There are two queen cells so I presume that is exactly what my bees are doing.

 

[snelgrove]

was such a strange set of events, that's why I posted

 

[Erichalfbee]

was such a strange set of events, that's why I posted

Yes absolutely....a fantastic story.

 

[snelgrove]

Yes absolutely....a fantastic story.

thanks,