kittietrixie
New Bee
- Joined
- Apr 11, 2011
- Messages
- 30
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- Location
- Suffolk
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 4
Hi.
I inpsected my hives this evening and wonder if you could help with the two problems seen.
First, one hive had a queen cell last time I inspected about 12 days ago - when I inspected today, the queen cell is still there, the hive is full of bees and stores (no eggs). Do you think the queen cell will emerge or has it all gone terribly wrong?
Second problem - another hive had no eggs and no visible queen. However, it did have 7 fairly developed queen cells. I didn't destroy any of them as it was perplexing - no queen, no eggs but they're preparing to swarm? Or have I just got it all wrong and they're superseding?
Any light you can shed would be gratefully received!
I inpsected my hives this evening and wonder if you could help with the two problems seen.
First, one hive had a queen cell last time I inspected about 12 days ago - when I inspected today, the queen cell is still there, the hive is full of bees and stores (no eggs). Do you think the queen cell will emerge or has it all gone terribly wrong?
Second problem - another hive had no eggs and no visible queen. However, it did have 7 fairly developed queen cells. I didn't destroy any of them as it was perplexing - no queen, no eggs but they're preparing to swarm? Or have I just got it all wrong and they're superseding?
Any light you can shed would be gratefully received!