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  • From: Blair Christian <blair.christian AT gmail.com>
  • To: ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [ocba] Queen request update...
  • Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:27:04 -0400

Hi All,

I think it may have been a false alarm. My friend's hive 1 had
swarmed two weeks ago (captured, put into hive 2), and then swarmed
again (hive 3). Once a very kind beekeeper reminded me to read about
the biology/timeline for new queens, it's obvious that there shouldn't
be any uncapped brood because the new queen wouldn't have had time to
get mated and start laying, and apparently virgin queens are much
smaller and easy to miss, so the fact that I saw no normal sized queen
is expected. Hopefully this info will help somebody else- if your
hive has no brood, it could be because your hive swarmed a week or two
ago.


Queen Bee Development

Day....Queen Stage....Note
==========================
-2......Egg
-1......Egg
0.......Egg..............Split Made
1.......1st Larval.....Realize queenless - start feeding/building queen cells
2.......2nd Larval
3.......3rd Larval
4.......4th Larval.....Queen cell capped
5.......Gorging........Queen cell capped
6.......Gorging
7.......Pre-pupa
8.......Pupa
9.......Pupa
10.....Pupa
11.....Pupa
12.....Pupa
13.....Emerge
14
15
16
17....................Orientation flights start
18....................Orientation flights
19....................Orientation flights
20....................Orientation flights
21....................Orientation flights
22....................Mating flight (if good weather and drones present!)
23....................Mating flight (if good weather and drones present!)
24....................Mating flight (if good weather and drones present!)
25....................Mating flight (if good weather and drones present!)
26....................Starts laying (early end)
27....................Starts laying (early end)
28....................Starts laying
29....................Starts laying
30....................Starts laying
31....................Starts laying
32....................Starts laying
33....................Starts laying
34....................Starts laying (later end)
35....................Starts laying (later end)


Taken from
http://www.beesource.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-194155.html



  • [ocba] Queen request update..., Blair Christian, 03/29/2012

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