Hi everyone, I'm a new beekeeper this year, just finished my introductory course before lockdown kicked in.
I got a nuc, installed it into a hive and everything was going rosy.
I opened the hive one weekend, saw queen cells, grabbed the recent edition of BeeCraft and performed a nucleus split.
I opened the hive after 3 weeks and the queen cell was still sealed. I read up on the forum that I should take a look in the cell incase the bees had resealed it. That evening I saw a swarm high in a tree near the apiary which departed. I left the hive for another week and had no eggs so put a frame of eggs and unsealed brood in. After 4 days, no queencells, just loads of sealed brood and a few larvae. I was all ready to reunite this weekend, but I'm not sure what to do.
Any advice gratefully received...
I got a nuc, installed it into a hive and everything was going rosy.
I opened the hive one weekend, saw queen cells, grabbed the recent edition of BeeCraft and performed a nucleus split.
I opened the hive after 3 weeks and the queen cell was still sealed. I read up on the forum that I should take a look in the cell incase the bees had resealed it. That evening I saw a swarm high in a tree near the apiary which departed. I left the hive for another week and had no eggs so put a frame of eggs and unsealed brood in. After 4 days, no queencells, just loads of sealed brood and a few larvae. I was all ready to reunite this weekend, but I'm not sure what to do.
Any advice gratefully received...