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  • From: Walter Starks <walterstarks AT icloud.com>
  • To: Shadi Cinpinski <shadikaze AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: "ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org" <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [ocba] Split questions
  • Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 18:40:25 -0400

The workers would create a queen from larvae less than 36 hours old. Usually in the middle of a frame.

Whichever hive has eggs would tell you where the mother queen is.

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Walter


You never can tell with bees. ~ Winnie-the-Pooh

On Jun 28, 2017, at 6:31 PM, Shadi Cinpinski <shadikaze AT gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,
I recently split our booming, larger hive- we took a few frames of brood, and 2-3 frames of nectar and pollen along with the nurse bees in those frames - and placed in a nuc. Despite looking for quite some time, we didn't spot our queen in our "mother" hive. 
We are feeding the nuc and have placed a robbing gate on the front. The nuc was established this past Sunday. I am still freaked that we might have accidentally moved the queen or she got lost in the trauma the move.

I went into the nuc today and saw baby bees emerging and brood, but nothing resembling a popcorn cell. Should we now expect to see queen cells at the bottom of one of the nuc frames? How is a new queen created for this type of split? Shall we simply give the nuc more time? 
I am not ready to give up yet and wanted the group's input.

Thanks,
Shadi Ana
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Shadi Cinpinski,
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