I am trying to learn how to raise a few queens for my own use. I tried the Miller method as it seemed the easiest. Placed it with the queen I wanted to replicate and she laid it up with eggs. Moved to a queenless colony with plenty of bees. I left it alone for 10 days.
When I checked there were 6 nice queens cells capped. I went back in 2 days later to cut some out and they were all gone! Not a trace there ever were any on the frame. I looked briefly to see if there was a virgin or 2 but didn’t see any.
I have seen remnants of emerged cells on other hives but never observed complete tear downs in 2 days before.
What the heck happened?
When I checked there were 6 nice queens cells capped. I went back in 2 days later to cut some out and they were all gone! Not a trace there ever were any on the frame. I looked briefly to see if there was a virgin or 2 but didn’t see any.
I have seen remnants of emerged cells on other hives but never observed complete tear downs in 2 days before.
What the heck happened?