Hi! New to the forum and new to bee keeping this year. I'm looking for advise on what I've got going on in my hive. I went to check on my girls today and noticed that the emergency queen cells did have larvae. I assume the queen is gone/died. I checked about three frames and found on queen cell looked laid open with this big larvae. It looks just like a huge version of the worker bee larvae. But I couldn't figure out why the queen larvae is not in a cell(if this is indeed a queen larvae.)
Also found a few other cells that had smaller larvae.
The girls seemed defensive when I pulled the frames with the queen cells. They covered the open larvae. I could hardly get a pic for them. They seemed agitated so I did not check more than 3 frames. I just closed the hive up.
I guess as a new beekeeper I'm just worried. I have no idea what to do. Do I requeen? Let then figure it out? Just at loss of what to do. Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks
TJ
Also found a few other cells that had smaller larvae.
The girls seemed defensive when I pulled the frames with the queen cells. They covered the open larvae. I could hardly get a pic for them. They seemed agitated so I did not check more than 3 frames. I just closed the hive up.
I guess as a new beekeeper I'm just worried. I have no idea what to do. Do I requeen? Let then figure it out? Just at loss of what to do. Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks
TJ

