UGH bad week for mating flights.

That looks like last week and this week here. I also have a split queen due for mating and have been concerned about her progress. I guess we'll know shortly.

I guess the bright side is my only other colony whom I thought was queenless would have been flying today as well because I dropped frames of larva in both of them at the same time but when I went to check cells I found a laying queen in it, so all hope is not lost LOL

She has a three week window to find one or two good days of flying weather. The odds are greatly in her favor.

Harley Craig said:

so wish me luck.

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I'm sure she'll do JUST fine!!! :thumbsup:

(it's you we're worried about! )

Santa Caras said:

I'm sure she'll do JUST fine!!! :thumbsup:

(it's you we're worried about! )

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Touche'

Michael Bush said:

She has a three week window to find one or two good days of flying weather. The odds are greatly in her favor.

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In the back of my mind I know this but with my luck.....ha ha..... lets just say this colony cant get a new queen fast enough.

>lets just say this colony cant get a new queen fast enough.

That's your opinion. Bees are more patient...

I would think she will find the time, Good Luck. Im on the verge of being willing to trade a queen for rain!!. Our forecast looks like Full Sun, High Humidity, Dead grass, wilting clover. Has been like that for a month.:waiting:

Well we didn't get any real hard rain till just now I checked on them about noon today and found a very fat pretty looking queen and a couple frames of eggs, the odd thing is the queen was a very typical looking " Italian" and the frame of eggs I gave them to raise a queen from was from very dark carniolians. Every queen that the guy I got the eggs from is black as can be. So this leads me to a new question, some of the workers produced by his bees have more of an Italian coloring due to his carni queens mating with Italian drones in the area I assume .

So since I dropped these larva into a formallly Italian colony do you think they could tell which ones were Italian sired and purposely chose that one ?