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  • From: Lewis Cauble <lewis AT hivebody.com>
  • To: "ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org" <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [ocba] help with inspecting my new split
  • Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:15:48 -0400 (EDT)

Too early yet.  You should not expect eggs until ~35 days after the split. Use the queen calendar below to get a rough idea of what to expect.

 

http://www.thebeeyard.org/cgi-bin/queencalendar.pl?month=4&day=1&year=2013



On April 21, 2013 at 4:03 PM Lewis Cauble <lewis AT hivebody.com> wrote:

 

Too early I believe.  Give them a week or 2 and look again. 

 


On April 21, 2013 at 3:59 PM Sally Freeman <sallyfreeman AT earthlink.net> wrote:

Hi,
 
I need a pair of more experienced eyes to come and help me inspect my hives.  I started with two hives last spring, had one survive the winter and split it 2  1/2 half weeks ago when it was bursting at the seams.  Bees have been very busy coming and going from both hives,  but when I looked in the new hive today, the swarm cell had hatched but I couldn't find the queen. (This is not unusual for me, I almost never can see the queen!)  But there was also, no sign of eggs or larvae and they had eaten all of their stores.  (I gave them extra stores from my dead colony.)  I am pretty sure that I need to buy a queen for this colony and start feeding them.  Is this right?  Or is it too early to see eggs from a new queen?  Anybody have the time to come and look or to give me advice I would appreciate it!
 
I am 10 minutes out of Hillsborough off of Orange Grove Rd and Borland.  
 
Thanks!
Sally

 

 



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