Supercedure?

[achillrose]

My bees have a new very young queen who has started laying and seems to be doing well however they have made 3 queen cells why have they done this and should I leave them alone or should I make a nucleus with them?

 

[Murox]

What are they in, nuc, hive ?
Causes of swarming -so building of queen cells
1. age/condition of the queen.
2. congestion in the BROOD CHAMBER caused by whatever.
3. not enough SUPER space.

 

[achillrose]

Hi they're in a NS hive with a super on and were the result of the AS I did about a month ago. all the brood hatched and cells polished in readiness, and this queen is the result of that AS. she has just begun to lay in the past week.
they have plenty of food and no drone brood and are not overcrowded there are 3 charged cells.....Any advice much appreciated��

 

[eltalia]

Hi they're in a NS hive with a super on and were the result of the AS I did about a month ago. all the brood hatched and cells polished in readiness, and this queen is the result of that AS. she has just begun to lay in the past week.
they have plenty of food and no drone brood and are not overcrowded there are 3 charged cells.....Any advice much appreciated��

Just make very sure the broodchamber is not being backfilled, like they are moving
stores up from foraging.
All good, leave them bee to sort it out as it is highly likely they tear down the
QC startups once she is really firing... way too soon to know yet.

Bill

 

[achillrose]

Wonderful...I,ll make double sure of that....they did have plenty of food....it's tricky to remember everything! Especially when you're focused on looking for one thing and the bees throw up something you weren't expecting. I,ll have another quick look in today. Thank you for all your advice.

 

[enrico]

This is a new queen. The resident bees are not sure if she is ok yet. They are hedging their bets. I would get rid of the queen cells, or make a nuc up and I would suggest that they will be fine then. It sometimes happens with new queen's.
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[mazzamazda]

This is a new queen. The resident bees are not sure if she is ok yet. They are hedging their bets. I would get rid of the queen cells, or make a nuc up and I would suggest that they will be fine then. It sometimes happens with new queen's.
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I see this up to 50% of new queens, I'm still not sure if this is to do with weather, bees too old, treatment as I always treat for varroa during this brood break, access to food affecting queens laying or size of colony. I usually introduce to very weak colonies for ease of introduction. I'd be interested to hear what others experience. What I do find is once knocked down they very rarely they make queen cells again.

 

[Murox]

This is a new queen. The resident bees are not sure if she is ok yet. They are hedging their bets. I would get rid of the queen cells, or make a nuc up and I would suggest that they will be fine then. It sometimes happens with new queen's.
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