Whether or not there is a virgin running around it is hard to tell without a schedule.
But according to the queen rearing calendar, the time frame is almost one month from the
time you put in the frame of eggs to the time of a new laying queen.
It takes almost one month to make a new laying queen. So I would guess this is the queen
from the frame you put in and not the running virgin if there is one before. The virgin that
emerged later might send the earlier virgin away.
You should put the newly capped qcs into another nuc for another small hive to over winter with.
No need to destroy them as they are good cells still. Put an ad on CL if you want to get rid of them.
It is better than destroying them this way.
But according to the queen rearing calendar, the time frame is almost one month from the
time you put in the frame of eggs to the time of a new laying queen.
It takes almost one month to make a new laying queen. So I would guess this is the queen
from the frame you put in and not the running virgin if there is one before. The virgin that
emerged later might send the earlier virgin away.
You should put the newly capped qcs into another nuc for another small hive to over winter with.
No need to destroy them as they are good cells still. Put an ad on CL if you want to get rid of them.
It is better than destroying them this way.
