May 24 this hive swarmed. Upon inspection we found these cells.
So it's been 12 days now, I thought the swarm or Supercedure cells would have hatched out, taken care of business, and then gone on a mating flight.
Today's inspection June 5 (by my wife) finds these cells pictured above all opened, looks like all hatched or were opened.
On a different frame, in the same bottom deep are these cells, (see below) two of them open from the bottom, no hinged "door", just open, and one still sealed.
So what could be going on? No larvae or eggs to be found. Most of the thousands of capped brood found on 5-24 have hatched out now.
I'm thinking queenless here, and needing an egg to make a queen, or add a purchased queen.
Could bee queen hatched and is out on mating flight and may or may not make it back? How to tell? 12 days too soon to make judgement?
We did go through something similar last year with our Italians, swarm, then like a ghost town for over 4 weeks, on day 34 or so we did find
some eggs, and the hive prospered and made it through winter. These bees were feral cutout from late last year, not a package.

So it's been 12 days now, I thought the swarm or Supercedure cells would have hatched out, taken care of business, and then gone on a mating flight.
Today's inspection June 5 (by my wife) finds these cells pictured above all opened, looks like all hatched or were opened.
On a different frame, in the same bottom deep are these cells, (see below) two of them open from the bottom, no hinged "door", just open, and one still sealed.
So what could be going on? No larvae or eggs to be found. Most of the thousands of capped brood found on 5-24 have hatched out now.
I'm thinking queenless here, and needing an egg to make a queen, or add a purchased queen.
Could bee queen hatched and is out on mating flight and may or may not make it back? How to tell? 12 days too soon to make judgement?
We did go through something similar last year with our Italians, swarm, then like a ghost town for over 4 weeks, on day 34 or so we did find
some eggs, and the hive prospered and made it through winter. These bees were feral cutout from late last year, not a package.
