I took an unmated virgin out of a nuc yesterday and united the nuc with a queenright colony beside it.
I still have two virgin queens in apideas, one 26 days after emergence and the other about 35 but given the weather forecast these have no chance of mating now.
I just left these to their own devices out of idle curiosity to see if I could get any late matings this year.
the last of my queens to mate successfully this year flew around 8th September.
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