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I think it's 35 days but I forget.
They swarmed June 9th, and left queen cells/cups. I *noticed* capped queen cells on 6/15 and made new hives with them. Last time I checked on 6/28 there were cells with their sides ripped out in one hive and I saw a new queen walking around, not laying. I couldn't find the queen cells in a couple of the new small hives I made, altho I tried not to poke around too much. I didn't see any queens in those either.
It's been rainy here but soon I want to check again. It hasn't been quite a month tho, I don't want to disturb them too much.
According to the queen rearing calendar, starting with swarm date, their mating flights would have been 6/26 - 6/27, so that would have been a week ago.
They swarmed June 9th, and left queen cells/cups. I *noticed* capped queen cells on 6/15 and made new hives with them. Last time I checked on 6/28 there were cells with their sides ripped out in one hive and I saw a new queen walking around, not laying. I couldn't find the queen cells in a couple of the new small hives I made, altho I tried not to poke around too much. I didn't see any queens in those either.
It's been rainy here but soon I want to check again. It hasn't been quite a month tho, I don't want to disturb them too much.
According to the queen rearing calendar, starting with swarm date, their mating flights would have been 6/26 - 6/27, so that would have been a week ago.