Somethings Up...
Built and loaded my Observation Hive about 2 weeks ago...I've been enjoying it and things appeared to be rolling right alone, I'm even getting half decent about being able to find the queen.
Bees active, bringing in pollen and nectar, queen laying, etc. etc. All appeared to be good!
Anyway, the first brood started to get capped last Wednesday, all on frame #2, they capped a large majority of the frame and it was a good looking laying pattern...figured I was on scheduled to have my first bees emerge by April 1st. In the last couple days I started noticing some bees uncapping some of the cells and carrying out Pupa. I really didn't give it a second thought, I just figured it was good hygienic behavior. That's until today when I noticed that they've almost uncapped the entire frame...I'd estimate a good 80% of the capped brood, if not more has been uncapped.
Thoughts? What could be causing this? Might it self correcting and clear up? Or, are they destined to fail?
Frame 3, which is the next frame she laid on is now probably about 60% capped, I'm curious to see what happens with it.
Built and loaded my Observation Hive about 2 weeks ago...I've been enjoying it and things appeared to be rolling right alone, I'm even getting half decent about being able to find the queen.
Bees active, bringing in pollen and nectar, queen laying, etc. etc. All appeared to be good!
Anyway, the first brood started to get capped last Wednesday, all on frame #2, they capped a large majority of the frame and it was a good looking laying pattern...figured I was on scheduled to have my first bees emerge by April 1st. In the last couple days I started noticing some bees uncapping some of the cells and carrying out Pupa. I really didn't give it a second thought, I just figured it was good hygienic behavior. That's until today when I noticed that they've almost uncapped the entire frame...I'd estimate a good 80% of the capped brood, if not more has been uncapped.
Thoughts? What could be causing this? Might it self correcting and clear up? Or, are they destined to fail?
Frame 3, which is the next frame she laid on is now probably about 60% capped, I'm curious to see what happens with it.