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Walk away time ?
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March 22, 2012, 04:17:34 pm »
How long after you are walking away before they figure out they're queenless and start the Q cells?
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Michael Bush
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March 23, 2012, 03:21:33 am »
About two hours. But it isn't obvious for about two days.
http://www.bushfarms.com/huber.htm#letter4
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March 23, 2012, 10:39:51 am »
Thanks - as a followup question (more hypothetical than anything), if one put a queen and nurse bees in a nuc with old brood that has not been prepared to receive eggs by the nurse bees, how long until the quuen would be able to start laying?
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March 24, 2012, 02:42:50 am »
>if one put a queen and nurse bees in a nuc with old brood that has not been prepared to receive eggs by the nurse bees, how long until the quuen would be able to start laying?
If she was laying when you put here in, probably a couple of hours...
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