Hi Everyone,
Swarm cells I moved into nucs started to hatch today, looks like some of the cells were ended. 2 queens are very nice super happy, hope they mate well. However in one nuc the queen is a bit smaller than i'de like, the smallest i've seen thus far. The nurse bees do pay attention to her. There are still 2 more cells in the small queen nuc that have not hatched and are not ended ,nurses are licking the cells and the bottoms are thining. Probably will hatch tonight.
Im wondering what you guys would do. I went ahead and put her in a small mating nuc and seperated out the remaining swarm cells to hatch. Unfortunately I did not have my camera with me, but the queen looks very similar to the one is fatbee mans video, perhaps a bit smaller. Suprising how I even saw here, sneaky little beast.
http://youtu.be/jWjSbj_OKkY
Swarm cells I moved into nucs started to hatch today, looks like some of the cells were ended. 2 queens are very nice super happy, hope they mate well. However in one nuc the queen is a bit smaller than i'de like, the smallest i've seen thus far. The nurse bees do pay attention to her. There are still 2 more cells in the small queen nuc that have not hatched and are not ended ,nurses are licking the cells and the bottoms are thining. Probably will hatch tonight.
Im wondering what you guys would do. I went ahead and put her in a small mating nuc and seperated out the remaining swarm cells to hatch. Unfortunately I did not have my camera with me, but the queen looks very similar to the one is fatbee mans video, perhaps a bit smaller. Suprising how I even saw here, sneaky little beast.
http://youtu.be/jWjSbj_OKkY