I will be harvesting my two queencells tomorrow and peeked at them today. Over the past 5 days, the nurse bees have built a lot of comb all around the cells. There are only two cells on the bar and each cell is not almost the diameter of a paper towel roll (over 1" diameter) and also has at least another 1/2" of comb below the cell.
Is this additional comb a problem and should I do something about it? I think it is vey unlikely that the virgin queen can free hersulf without the nurse bees removing at least 1 half inch of comb for her so that the sidewalls of her cell are exposed.
I will be harvesting tomorrow and can try to take a piture then, but in the meantime I would appreciate to know if anyone else has experienced this and what they have done about it?
-fafrd
Is this additional comb a problem and should I do something about it? I think it is vey unlikely that the virgin queen can free hersulf without the nurse bees removing at least 1 half inch of comb for her so that the sidewalls of her cell are exposed.
I will be harvesting tomorrow and can try to take a piture then, but in the meantime I would appreciate to know if anyone else has experienced this and what they have done about it?
-fafrd