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I'm new to beekeeping and this is my first year. Recently caught a local swarm and put them in a nuc (April 7th) so almost a month to the day. At first everything seemed to be going ok, but then I noticed there was no brood like my other two hives. Then sporadic drone cells only. Then lots of dying bees outside the nuc. Lots of eggs per cell. I gave them one frame of eggs, larvae and capped worker brood from my other hive. I will post pictures but would like someone to confirm my suspicion.
The real problem is they never made a queen cell, so I decided to shake them out. And in that process found a queen sitting on the bottom of the nuc... I found 3 queen cups, but none were drawn out and they were not on the new frame of brood I gave them, only old cups on drone comb. So I'm lost... Am I crazy?
The real problem is they never made a queen cell, so I decided to shake them out. And in that process found a queen sitting on the bottom of the nuc... I found 3 queen cups, but none were drawn out and they were not on the new frame of brood I gave them, only old cups on drone comb. So I'm lost... Am I crazy?
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