Waiting game!

[Karsal]

From my previous post to put you in the picture.
Received my first bees 4frames of brood and food along with an hours worth of flying bees on the 4th May. Unfortunately there was only one ripe queen cell from another hive available so was instructed to introduce this when I got home then wait a fortnight for the queen to have hatched and mated. Fed the bees 1:1 sugar solution and 2pt went down rapidly over the first week.
On the 16th May they swarmed and I managed to catch the swarm and pop them into a poly nuc.
All seems fine and I have noticed pollen being taken into the nuc and the main hive the swarm came from.
I have Inspected the hive and the nuc Fri 23 and Fri 30th May and found no queen in either no eggs or larvae present. The bees in the nuc are drawing comb but the comb in the main hive has been filled with syrup and pollen.
I thought I must have hived the queen with the swarm as they fanned at the entrance and all the flying bees entered the nuc.
Just waiting to see if she starts laying in the nuc as there are a lot of bees entering with pollen and comb being drawn.
Any advice welcome.

 

[enrico]

You'll hear this a lot from me
Be patient!
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[oliver90owner]

My reply to your last thread stands, I think.

 

[BeeJayBee]

Same as the above replies.

16th May to now is too short a time to be worrying, give the queen at least 3 weeks to get going.

The bees will collect nectar and pollen because it's what they do, they'll store it almost randomly until the queen is ready to lay and then they'll prepare an area for her by cleaning out the nectar and pollen - but the other frames will still look the same for quite some time.