I have a queen, I see her, I see her. It is really cool just so you know. The best part is that I was near the OB hive and heard what I thought was a muffled duck quack. 3-4 times in a row. I thought to myself, " I wonder it that is the bees" Put my ear on the hive and yep, it was coming from the bees. "oh wow, I wonder if that is a queen piping" Yep, it is. I can see her plain as day, and I can watch her stop, and pip everyonce in a while. It is very cool.... They don't seem to be attending to her at all though, she is just marching around like she owns place, but none of the girls even seem to acknowledge her existence?? Is that cause she is new?? She is not laying yet, so they don't care yet? So exciting....
Ok, the OB hive I have has the two frames of about 3/4 brood and 1/4 honey. Well its getting mighty tight in there. I was thinking about taking one of the frames out and starting a nuc with it. Each one of the frames has 3-4 of the queen cells on it, so I thought it might be a good thing. Replacing the frame with an empty drawn frame.
So with the new queen showing up earlier than I thought, should I just leave them alone. I wanted to let her get mated and then move her out. I don't want her to destroy the other queen cells. So how long till she does that, and will she do that before her mating flight. I have the queen cages and all ready to go. So any advice will be appriciated.... I am most concerned about her killing the other queens before I get her out of there, and I want to split this OB hive and get a nuc started. Especially since its getting crowded in there.
I love that I got to see the queen today, and found her by hearing her pip.... That is just cool... Sorry, have I said that already :-D
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