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okay ill summarize and try not to write a book :
a couple weeks ago i made a nuc from a hive that was populating earlier and faster than the other hives in the yard by removing the queen and starting a nuc. obviosuly leaving the mother hive queenless. 2 days ago i made 3 more nucs with some other hives. today i checked to make sure they were maing QC's.the first hive i made a nuc from had plenty of queen cells and 3 were capped and large. i decided to cut them out and add them to the queenless hives which were making queen cells as well. of course they were only 2 days old. its not a big deal since all the hives are making plenty of their own cells. will they except these queen cells and continue to build the ones they started as well ? will they tear down the QC's and continue on their own cells ? or...will they tear down the ones they started and go with the QC's i gave them ?
it would be nice for them to take the queen cells so they dont have 2 weeks or more before a laying queen.
i cant remember if i have ever done this before....while knowing it. let me know ur thoughts.
a couple weeks ago i made a nuc from a hive that was populating earlier and faster than the other hives in the yard by removing the queen and starting a nuc. obviosuly leaving the mother hive queenless. 2 days ago i made 3 more nucs with some other hives. today i checked to make sure they were maing QC's.the first hive i made a nuc from had plenty of queen cells and 3 were capped and large. i decided to cut them out and add them to the queenless hives which were making queen cells as well. of course they were only 2 days old. its not a big deal since all the hives are making plenty of their own cells. will they except these queen cells and continue to build the ones they started as well ? will they tear down the QC's and continue on their own cells ? or...will they tear down the ones they started and go with the QC's i gave them ?
it would be nice for them to take the queen cells so they dont have 2 weeks or more before a laying queen.
i cant remember if i have ever done this before....while knowing it. let me know ur thoughts.