Possible supercedure

[Bridget]

Today I inspected the swarm I was given end of May. Been laying well so left it pretty much alone after a couple of thorough inspections early on. Today found 3 supercedure cells on the second and third frames in - one uncapped and empty and two still capped so removed those two and queens emerged from both. They didn't look like they were new born but scampered out. Did I read on here that VQ can delay their emergence? Anyway another new experience. Put them in queen less apideas but think I should have added more bees to one of them. Think I did it all too quick but when it's unexpected it's hard to think it through completely with bees buzzing round.


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[walkhighlands]

Hope those queens are doing ok in the apideas Bridget.

Update on the thread: the bees seemed to have torn down the supercedure cell we left and made another, but they'd also made a couple of swarm cells so we did do an artificial swarm in the end. So the old queen lives on - and they've gone from a one frame artificial swarm to almost a whole box of fully drawn and mostly laid comb already. The new queen made from a frame of eggs given to another hive which somehow got queenless is now laying too, so things are fairly happy in bee world at present.

[Bridget]

One apidea has 1 or 2 day old eggs. The other nothing yet but I need to do a proper inspection on Wednesday so will let you know then!


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