Ok so like many I did my first full inspection on Sunday to find 5 healthy hives with one having as many as 7 full frames of brood, the 6th hive however only had about 2/3 frames, bees looked healthy but queen clearly not laying as well as the others, on further inspection I found one nearly ready to cap queen cell along the side against the frame and a further 4-5 day old one.
Bees had plenty of space, very low varroa levels and I found fresh eggs. I found the 2019 marked queen and clipped her.
I made the decision righty or wrongly that this was supersedure due to poor laying.
So today I go in to have a quick check and queen is still about and laying the odd egg here and there, a further two queen cells are built. Again I have ,shaken the bees off, selected one sealed cell and decided to leave.
Is this supersedure or an attempt to swarm early
Bees had plenty of space, very low varroa levels and I found fresh eggs. I found the 2019 marked queen and clipped her.
I made the decision righty or wrongly that this was supersedure due to poor laying.
So today I go in to have a quick check and queen is still about and laying the odd egg here and there, a further two queen cells are built. Again I have ,shaken the bees off, selected one sealed cell and decided to leave.
Is this supersedure or an attempt to swarm early