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Offline barry42001

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Re: A first for me today in my 4 years of beekeeping
« Reply #20 on: April 19, 2014, 09:46:13 am »
On the first picture, shows whole frame in the mid right of frame you have a mature queen cell. On the mid left looks like a immature queen cell, bee was tending it.

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Re: A first for me today in my 4 years of beekeeping
« Reply #21 on: April 19, 2014, 11:22:05 am »
From what....I SEE ....is Capped queen cell..mid right of frame that everyone sees!
Then ,.....I SEE a BEE in flight mid left. Our eyes play tricks...especially my aging ones.

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Re: A first for me today in my 4 years of beekeeping
« Reply #22 on: April 19, 2014, 12:13:07 pm »
Lol careful I resemble that remark

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Re: A first for me today in my 4 years of beekeeping
« Reply #23 on: April 19, 2014, 08:52:35 pm »
Give it time to hatch out and settle down before disturbing,.

How long should I wait? This is a new adventure for me.  Any advice is appreciated.
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Re: A first for me today in my 4 years of beekeeping
« Reply #24 on: April 19, 2014, 09:03:57 pm »
That cell looked like it was maybe a day or two from hatching. A week to 10 days after that I would start investigating. See if there is a queen in there, but be careful, she'll probably be a runner unless she has had her mating flights. I would say maybe a week from today?
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Re: A first for me today in my 4 years of beekeeping
« Reply #25 on: April 30, 2014, 10:12:28 pm »
Checked the queen peanut today and she is out. The bees were a lot less aggressive this time as well. I didn't try to find her.

Not a very good picture but you can see she's gone.


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