many queen cells hanging on the bottom of frames in the swarmed 'source' hive. In fact when I removed a frame a few queen cells that had attached to the tops of the box below frames ripped in half showing/killing a queen in the making.
I cannot find a queen in this hive - then again I'm really bad at finding them anyway - sort of given up. With so many queen cells should I think that the hive has NO queen and one of these will become queen?
Should I remove these cells?
Your thoughts appreciated.
BTW - the new swarm hive (I was able to capture it) is going gangbusters. I put the 2nd medium on and this hive is packed with bees and extremely active.
I cannot find a queen in this hive - then again I'm really bad at finding them anyway - sort of given up. With so many queen cells should I think that the hive has NO queen and one of these will become queen?
Should I remove these cells?
Your thoughts appreciated.
BTW - the new swarm hive (I was able to capture it) is going gangbusters. I put the 2nd medium on and this hive is packed with bees and extremely active.