Hi, All! I found a big queen cell about 1" all filled up with Royal Jelly today. My first time seeing
such a big long cell. It will be another 3 days or so before it will be capped.
Anybody doing any split or queen grafting now? And have pics to share about your work (bee's work.)
We are still in winter mode in these parts but I did break a DBL. nuc down in to a single nuc and got the first queen pics of 2014 for me.
It has been a long cold winter can not wait till I can open feed and get in to the hives and see how they are. soon.
Cell pics are useful if you include the short edge of a business card in the image. Short edge == 5.1 mm. This makes it a great over-under gauge of 10 cell size.
this queen had already hatched out when I did my first hive inspection Feb 24. She didn't get mated, so it really messed up the dynamics of the hive. The bees capped the 3 new queen cells, but then tore into them before the larve could mature and hatch.
Found a new group of queen cells with larvae on Mar15. Will move them this weekend to mini-mating nucs so they can hatch out and I can requeen properly.
Well, since I just split on Sunday, I don't have any cell pics, but this is what I saw when I went to see how many scouts I had today at the swarm trap:
Well, since I just split on Sunday, I don't have any cell pics, but this is what I saw when I went to see how many scouts I had today at the swarm trap:
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