Jon

I looked at a few apideas yesterday and found eggs in three so the queens must have flown between Wednesday and Friday in the good spell of weather. That's 20 days from queen emergence so just in the nick of time as 25 days is regarded by many as the date where a queen turns drone layer.
I am assuming they are not laying drones and will know for sure when they start to cap the brood.
I have queens in eleven apideas in this batch and am hopeful now that the majority of them will start to lay.
9 of the queens are from a Galtee daughter queen mated with Galtee drones so will be good for producing AMM drones.