Originally Posted by
Jon
Hi funfly, welcome to the forum.
1. There can be several mating flights over a few days if she does not mate with enough drones although it is perfectly possible that complete mating takes place in a single flight.
2. In my experience you see eggs about 2 days after a mating flight. This is based upon queens I have retrieved which have landed short of an apidea and have bees clustered around them, so I know the exact timing of the mating flight.
3. When a queen has started laying she will not take any more mating flights.
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