Tojan effort from Queen

[BeeMoustashe]

Just thought I'd share my latest bit of news. Had a Queen hatch four weeks ago, almost to the day, having done me an artificial swarm. She emerged from an 'emergency cell' (in middle of frame, modified from worker cell) that I'd missed, killed off the two nice fat 'swarm' cells i'd left.

Oh dear I thought, she's likely to be a scrub...

Four weeks on, she's layed up seven commercial frames, with sealed worker brood rather than being a DLQ, in a lovely pattern. Totally in awe.

 

[Heather]

Don't get diamonds as big as bricks.... size isn't everything, lads.

 

[oliver90owner]

Don't get diamonds as big as bricks

But the bigger ones are generally the more expensive - as long as they are not flawed.