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[Randall Austin <s.randall.austin AT gmail.com>]

Karin,

It sounds like you've answered your own question. Patience is a virtue, 
especially in beekeeping. From your description, the most likely 
scenario is that everything is progressing as planned with respect to 
the colony requeening itself and you may see new brood in a couple of 
weeks. Attempts to intervene would likely be expensive, difficult and 
ultimately unsuccessful (assuming that the colony is in fact in the 
middle of the requeening process).

Randall


On 6/24/2017 3:57 PM, Karin Winstead wrote:
> I think I have lost my queen...again.  (New package from April). Full 
> inspection of all 3 levels.  Some small pupae seen, so I'd guess departure 
> was 5-7 days ago.
>
> There was a queen cell, open on the bottom.  I didn't catch any swarm 
> evidence but can't swear to really knowing if I have fewer bees than 2 weeks 
> ago when I last inspected.
>
> Do I sit tight and hope a mated queen returns?  This worked well last 
> time...just not sure if time of year matters.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Karin Winstead
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