I went thru one of my top bar hives today. It looked like classic laying worker except there were a few capped queen cells. Can the bees mistakenly cap drone larvae in a queen cup? I saw queen cups with multiple eggs in the cups. And several capped queen cells
If they think they have a queen ie laying workers then why are they building capped queen cells?
If i was able to get fresh eggs from another hive, and that is a big if, would they build queen cells? Or do they think they are already making a queen since they already have capped queen cells and so would not build a queen from the eggs.
If this was one of my langstroth hives there are lots of things i could do, such as do a newspaper combine with another hive, or put it over another hive with a double screen, or keep adding frames of eggs. But i don't really know what to do!!! I have two top bar hives but their bars are not interchangeable.
If they think they have a queen ie laying workers then why are they building capped queen cells?
If i was able to get fresh eggs from another hive, and that is a big if, would they build queen cells? Or do they think they are already making a queen since they already have capped queen cells and so would not build a queen from the eggs.
If this was one of my langstroth hives there are lots of things i could do, such as do a newspaper combine with another hive, or put it over another hive with a double screen, or keep adding frames of eggs. But i don't really know what to do!!! I have two top bar hives but their bars are not interchangeable.