Terry G
House Bee
- Joined
- Feb 1, 2013
- Messages
- 170
- Reaction score
- 0
- Location
- Kent
- Hive Type
- Langstroth
- Number of Hives
- 2. No, 3. No, 2 again
The back-story is this: New queen post-swarm, not yet laying, bees filling up the brood box with nectar despite 2 supers of foundation.
So moving on to today: no sign of queen but one frame-worth of capped brood and larvae. Forgot to wear glasses so didn't see eggs. Also about 10 queen cells, dammit, mostly charged, some capped, suggesting our new queen may already have buggered off. BUT the capped QCs were really small. Definitely queen cells but about half the size of any we have seen before. Small peanuts rather than hefty old droopers. What, dear friends of the forum, does this mean? If anything.
So moving on to today: no sign of queen but one frame-worth of capped brood and larvae. Forgot to wear glasses so didn't see eggs. Also about 10 queen cells, dammit, mostly charged, some capped, suggesting our new queen may already have buggered off. BUT the capped QCs were really small. Definitely queen cells but about half the size of any we have seen before. Small peanuts rather than hefty old droopers. What, dear friends of the forum, does this mean? If anything.