Summer Inspections

[Polyanwood]

Agree that mostly don't need to find the queen, but I do for reasons already outlined I want to. Have tried the drastic trick to no avail. Neighbours on either side not happy. Perhaps she was small and went through QE?

 

[BKF Admin]

Regards the Queen getting through the QE I did see a Carnie Queen last summer that was so small you would not believe it,yet she had filled 2 brood boxes in a wbc.

 

[Polyanwood]

Admin Is WBC on your list??

I think she was newly mated my skinny one. They seem smaller then, and afterwards their abdomens seem to swell up...... is this true or just what I saw/imagine?

 

[Bcrazy]

Hi Admin,

They seem smaller then, and afterwards their abdomens seem to swell up...... is this true or just what I saw/imagine?

Yes they do swell up after their mating flights and when they mature and settle down to raising a colony.

Think about when a swarm prepares itself for leaving the hive, what happens to the queen?

Regards;

 

[BKF Admin]

Now I am starting to think maybe they had just superceded ?

 

[Bcrazy]

The location of the queen cells should tell you what took place.

Regards;