Originally Posted by
Poly Hive
Worker: 3 days an egg, 5 days moulting, 13 days sealed. 21 days total
Drone: 3 days an egg, 8 days moulting, 13 days sealed. 24 days total
Queen: 3 days an egg, 5- days moulting, 8 days sealed. 16 days total.
Average figures subject to temperatures. Taken from memory and the Beekeeping Encyclopedia.
Without this info reading a colony is unlikely.
Some may remember the americanised bee fiasco in the border states when Africanised queens were found to emerge at 15.5 days. Several millions down the proverbial.
PH