Lesley Hoppy
House Bee
After my rather premature killing of the old queen last week - I looked into the hive today to check that they hadn't made a rash of emergency cells alongside the supercedure queen cell.
They hadn't - well - there were a couple of play cups....
However, the queen cell is really huge - and looks even bigger because it seems to have a bulge grafted onto the side of it at the base.
I would really like to remove this bulge in case it is actually another queen cell - but in doing so it would damage the ripe one. Has anyone any explanation for this?
Sorry - cant really go in again to take a photo....
They hadn't - well - there were a couple of play cups....
However, the queen cell is really huge - and looks even bigger because it seems to have a bulge grafted onto the side of it at the base.
I would really like to remove this bulge in case it is actually another queen cell - but in doing so it would damage the ripe one. Has anyone any explanation for this?
Sorry - cant really go in again to take a photo....