Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum
BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: achunter on July 04, 2009, 11:41:29 am
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took the old queen out of a strong hive and let the strong hive superseed a new queen, there were about 15 superceduer cells throughout the hive. all of them are chewed out but i have not seen any eggs what should i do? should i buy a queen and put it in there or give it another week or what? help!
thanks alex.
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when did you do all this? a virgin queen can take quite a long time to get laying. this subject has come up a number of times in the last couple of weeks. try doing a search and see if you can find what you need. i am afraid most are eating hotdogs today :-)
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yeah i figured it might take a little to get replies but thats fine lol, umm last weekend i know there were still queen cells capped so from then till know they all hatched, am i right by saying the queens will fight until theres only 1 left? so when do you think i should be worried the hive is queen less and should buy a queen?
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Around 28 days for a queen to emerge, mate and begin laying
this subject has come up a number of times in the last couple of weeks.try doing a search and see if you can find what you need
;)
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http://www.bushfarms.com/beesmath.htm