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- From: "Thomas Grizzle" <griz AT mindspring.com>
- To: <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [ocba] Queen Cells
- Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 13:15:54 -0400
Hi All, Take everything I am about to say with a grain of salt. A newbee is talking here. I am 3.5 weeks into installing a bee box and queen (from Busy Bee) into a single new 10-frame hive with nothing but foundation. I fed them the equivalent of two 5 pound bags of sugar and stopped feeding them at that point. Today I went into the hive to check it out. There appeared to be more bees than I installed, that’s the first thing I noted. There is honey stored away on parts of a few frames, and capped brood were visible. I find searching for a queen a hopeless endeavor. It is like looking at a giant oak tree on a breezy day and trying to find the biggest leaf. Ain’t gonna happen. That aside, I went through all 10 frames and found 4 queen cells, one in the middle of a frame, one more to the edge but not on the edge, and two on edges. I destroyed all four. Too late it occurred to me that I might have a failing queen and they were trying to “fix things.” There were still two frames with no comb drawn out, so they are not overcrowded. My Chapel Hill site is in a neighborhood next to a rather large forest (for in-town), the American Legion woods…about 20 acres, I’d estimate, and there are poplar trees here I am certain. Water is not a problem. Anyway… What should I do? Let them be(e) seems like the best option at this point. Tom Grizzle |
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[ocba] Queen Cells,
Thomas Grizzle, 05/08/2012
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Re: [ocba] Queen Cells,
Dan Kyburz, 05/08/2012
- Re: [ocba] Queen Cells, Randall Austin, 05/08/2012
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Re: [ocba] Queen Cells,
Dan Kyburz, 05/08/2012
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