- Joined
- May 29, 2018
- Messages
- 1,671
- Reaction score
- 329
- Location
- East Sussex
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 9.5
colony requeening and left it with 4-5 q cells to 'sort it out themselves' or leave them to it.....
and i had a frenzy of bees out yesterday (thought they were swarming) but then thought it could have been a mating ceremony
today checked in the colony (21 days since adding the eggs)
saw the queen but no eggs
saw 3 intact q cells which i thought would have been killed so went to squash them
1 was dead
2 were still capped but alive and when i opened each of the two...a queen ran out and made a run for it....
i thought the first q out was supposed to kill them? anyway...i managed to catch one of the virgins and then dropped in into undergrowth as i went for cage
odd...so released two queens from cells and not sure if one stayed in hive with newly emerged queen
leave them to it?
do they kill each other after emerging?
and i had a frenzy of bees out yesterday (thought they were swarming) but then thought it could have been a mating ceremony
today checked in the colony (21 days since adding the eggs)
saw the queen but no eggs
saw 3 intact q cells which i thought would have been killed so went to squash them
1 was dead
2 were still capped but alive and when i opened each of the two...a queen ran out and made a run for it....
i thought the first q out was supposed to kill them? anyway...i managed to catch one of the virgins and then dropped in into undergrowth as i went for cage
odd...so released two queens from cells and not sure if one stayed in hive with newly emerged queen
leave them to it?
do they kill each other after emerging?