What will happen when the five queens start to come out of their cells when I already have a new queen installed?
My vision is not what it used to be. I've been keeping bees since April, and one of my hives lost the queen pretty early on. I genuinely think she was a weak queen, as her brood was always pretty spotty, but I digress. I moved fresh brood and eggs from my other hive to the queenless hive hoping that they'd make a queen out of them. That hive was also getting ready to swarm, so I swapped in empty frames (and put another deep on it) for the brood frames with swarm cells and fresh eggs. At the time, I couldn't see any larvae in the swarm cells. Now all of those and a few emergency cells that I didn't see prior are capped... The new queen just came out of her cage and is already laying.
This particular hive and colony has given me trouble from the start with a weak queen and odd comb pattern compared to the "good child" next to it with a good laying queen and nice and neat comb.
My vision is not what it used to be. I've been keeping bees since April, and one of my hives lost the queen pretty early on. I genuinely think she was a weak queen, as her brood was always pretty spotty, but I digress. I moved fresh brood and eggs from my other hive to the queenless hive hoping that they'd make a queen out of them. That hive was also getting ready to swarm, so I swapped in empty frames (and put another deep on it) for the brood frames with swarm cells and fresh eggs. At the time, I couldn't see any larvae in the swarm cells. Now all of those and a few emergency cells that I didn't see prior are capped... The new queen just came out of her cage and is already laying.
This particular hive and colony has given me trouble from the start with a weak queen and odd comb pattern compared to the "good child" next to it with a good laying queen and nice and neat comb.