thenovice
Field Bee
- Joined
- Apr 29, 2014
- Messages
- 533
- Reaction score
- 1
- Location
- Canterbury
- Hive Type
- 14x12
- Number of Hives
- Aim for 4 but tend to end with 15
This hive is giving me headaches. some history: after treating with Maqs queen went of lay and bees made supersedure cells. after a lot of faffing and doing the wrong things (making nuc with the failing queen that absconded but went back in the mother hive) the hive is in continuus supersedure mode. but they make QC and tear them down again before emergence. 4 weeks ago there were so many QCs that I initiated a snelgrove II AS to be sure. after rejoining the queen with the flying bees, they have made supersedure cells again in the AS but no emergency cells in the original hive.
I have now an AS with 3 superboxes of wich 2 have eggs and brood on most frames with some supersedure cells and the original 14x12 with 8 frames of emerging brood but no plans (an now no possiblility) to make a new queen.
what is going on? I will combine this 2 hives but feel I have to wait until the AS bees finally decide on whether to supersede or not.
I have now an AS with 3 superboxes of wich 2 have eggs and brood on most frames with some supersedure cells and the original 14x12 with 8 frames of emerging brood but no plans (an now no possiblility) to make a new queen.
what is going on? I will combine this 2 hives but feel I have to wait until the AS bees finally decide on whether to supersede or not.