I have two apideas with virgin queens recently emerged. one is a scrub queen made from a cell after i removed the mated queen from the apidea and the other I plucked off a comb last week from a nuc which balled its queen and made queen cells.
In this weather the chance of a successful mating flight is near zero.
I have another couple with queens which emerged a month ago which are bound to start laying drone quite soon.
The temperature today got up to about 12c at best.

I have about 15-18 apideas with mated queens and I hope to overwinter these.
If we have a winter like the one before last I will lose the lot but I would hope to get a few through to Spring in a mild winter.

Anyone else having a go overwintering queens in mating nucs?