Bee Math on Queen Cell

[Quint Randle]

Okay. So on the May 15 I had several capped supercedure cells.

On the 22nd I'm pretty sure I saw the new queen, having a emerged.

According to MB's bee math info, I should be seeing eggs on June 5th or so.

I'm just wondering what the plus or minus might be? So I can know when to worry or not...

If this queen doesn't "make it" then I'll probably do a combine with my other hive.

Quint

[Michael Bush]

I've never seen eggs sooner than a week after emergence. I usually see eggs two weeks after emergence. If they are not laying by twenty four days after emergence they will be drone layers. If she is not laying until the period somewhere between sixteen and twenty four days after it seems hard to predict if she will be a fertile laying queen or a drone laying queen.