Worldwide Beekeeping
Beekeeping => General Beekeeping => Topic started by: Jen on March 21, 2015, 03:17:53 pm
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Yesterday I did a split, I found frames with loaded queen cells, and 3 swarm cells. When I found the queen to put into the split I noted that she was slender. Thinking that she has been thinned down for a impending swarm. She is now in the split. What will happen to her now? Will the bees fatten her up?
I didn't see any supercedure cells, but was thinking that maybe this is a superceded queen ready for mating, there are plenty of drones.
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jen, you asked this very same question on your 'hot hive thread'. let's all reply to jen's question on her original thread of dealing with her hot hive, post #66:
this link will take all to the post and pictures jen is asking for help on:
Hot Hive! (http://www.worldwidebeekeeping.com/forum/index.php/topic,3460.msg49736.html#msg49736)
"Three hours later I finally find the dad gummed queen, she was thinned down. What else did I find? several loaded queen cells and 3 swarm cells on the bottom of the frames. So I got busy and put a split together, found three good capped brood frames, which also had uncapped larvae of all stages in them. Had a hard time finding any eggs, finally found two frames that had a pretty good patch of eggs, left some eggs in the original hive and left some in the split. Also put a full frame of honey and a full frame of pollen, and one empty frame. Inserted new frames/foundation where needed.
I made sure that the slimmed down queen went into the split. What will happen to her now that she's in the split? will the bees fatten her back up again? she has been prepped for swarming... is that inevitable?"