On Saturday i united a brood box with a 2019 laying Queen over a colony with a Virgin that i splattered before the unite..i also put a test frame in two suspected Queen minus colonies..
Today i went to check on them..the news paper was shredded under the hive from the unite and all around which meant the bees had mixed..the Queen was there but strangely stuck head first in a Queen cup with a worker on her back behaving aggressively towards her..i freed her and this single bee seemed to be trying to Shepard the queen in one direction so i splattered the worker and the Queen did what Queens normally do to get out of the light with no other bees interested in her..(tender hooks for me on next inspection)..
I was correct with one of the two Queen minus colonies after seeing multiple charged Queen cells on the test frame..
The other test frame on the mongrel colony was as it should look but i still think it has a scrub Queen in there..
Gladly the colony with the test frame that produced Queen cells where the offspring of a Queen i Nuced during swarm attempts earlier so hopefully it should be a easy unite which was done with news paper AND air freshener..
The hive is bursting with bees and after the second brood box is removed it will be jam packed..i also removed a brood box from a double brood(Queen status uncertain) to compact that colony also..
Here is today's unite laying 2019 Queen in the top brood box....i would normally only news paper unite the two brood boxes but both hives had two and three super on them full of bees so the lot had to go on together with a bit of Airwick 6in 1 here and there..