Jamieb
New Bee
- Joined
- Mar 28, 2011
- Messages
- 27
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- Location
- Wiltshire
- Hive Type
- 14x12
- Number of Hives
- 2
Hi all,
Apologies for my first post being a question but I'm hoping for some opinions.
I've had my first hive (brood and a half of bees) for just over a month so I'm still very much a beginner. About a week after I received my hive I had a major incident where I dropped the hive trying to place it on a better stand (entirely my own fault) which although a nightmare at the time, they seemed to have recovered from unscathed.
Last week on my inspection I discovered that there was no eggs, larvae and generally no sign of the queen (this was the first time I had went all the way through the brood boxes). There was however several supercedure queen cells which I presumed must have stemmed from my earlier issues.
I decided to leave them as I was unsure of exactly what was going on and thought I should read up a bit more before destroying anything. To cut a long story short I checked yesterday (6 days on) and they still have no eggs etc, no sign of the queen and have not sealed any of the emergency queen cells.
I'm basically at the point where I think I should re-queen, is this a sensible course of action or have I missed something obvious?
Thanks in advance.
Apologies for my first post being a question but I'm hoping for some opinions.
I've had my first hive (brood and a half of bees) for just over a month so I'm still very much a beginner. About a week after I received my hive I had a major incident where I dropped the hive trying to place it on a better stand (entirely my own fault) which although a nightmare at the time, they seemed to have recovered from unscathed.
Last week on my inspection I discovered that there was no eggs, larvae and generally no sign of the queen (this was the first time I had went all the way through the brood boxes). There was however several supercedure queen cells which I presumed must have stemmed from my earlier issues.
I decided to leave them as I was unsure of exactly what was going on and thought I should read up a bit more before destroying anything. To cut a long story short I checked yesterday (6 days on) and they still have no eggs etc, no sign of the queen and have not sealed any of the emergency queen cells.
I'm basically at the point where I think I should re-queen, is this a sensible course of action or have I missed something obvious?
Thanks in advance.