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I did a split 3 weeks ago and moved the queen and all open brood and lots of honey and pollen into a new hive box, 10 frame deep, i checked on them last week and they were drawing comb quickly and every brood comb had eggs larva or capped brood not a cell was empty and very nice patern,
i checked yesterday again and decided to add a second deep as it was getting around 80% full and 90% drawn except for a drone comb that was just started but they were making comb on the outer cover, i pulled a frame to take a look and found a superceduce cup with an egg in it.
my question is if this queen who is only 1.5 years old is laying so well why are they superceding her and should i make another split and have a nuc with the old queen in it?
i checked yesterday again and decided to add a second deep as it was getting around 80% full and 90% drawn except for a drone comb that was just started but they were making comb on the outer cover, i pulled a frame to take a look and found a superceduce cup with an egg in it.
my question is if this queen who is only 1.5 years old is laying so well why are they superceding her and should i make another split and have a nuc with the old queen in it?