storm damage...

[sean-a]

Got back from a few days below, to find the nuc that I had placed on the top of another hive had been blown off and spilled the frames all over the ground.
Still covered with bees!

I have put the frames into a new brood box.
I could see eggs and brood but no queen.
Not sure how long they have been on the ground, as I have been away 4 days.

Bees all seem happy in their new home.

What are the chances of the queen surviving?

 

[sherwood]

Got back from a few days below, to find the nuc that I had placed on the top of another hive had been blown off and spilled the frames all over the ground.
Still covered with bees!

I have put the frames into a new brood box.
I could see eggs and brood but no queen.
Not sure how long they have been on the ground, as I have been away 4 days.

Bees all seem happy in their new home.

What are the chances of the queen surviving?

Quite favourable. if anyones going to its her. Heres an anicdotal story for you, some years ago I had a couple of Apidia on a low wall each had a new laying queen in it. I went out one morning and came back to one of these Apidea Absolutely overwhelmed by what must have been a swarm that had lost its queen, the effect was that they had suffocated all the bees in the apide. I emptied out the Apidea onto the ground having hived the swarm and left the dead bees lying on the ground below the wall came back ten minutes later and there is her majesty stumbling up the wall the sole survivor of the Apidea. All ther other 2 hundred or so bees dead and she survived I think Queens are something else.