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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: achunter on July 04, 2009, 11:41:29 am

Title: what should I do?
Post by: achunter on July 04, 2009, 11:41:29 am

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.

Title: Re: what should I do?
Post by: Kathyp on July 04, 2009, 11:51:04 am

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  :-)

Title: Re: what should I do?
Post by: achunter on July 04, 2009, 12:11:42 pm

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?

Title: Re: what should I do?
Post by: sc-bee on July 04, 2009, 12:19:10 pm

Around 28 days for a queen to emerge, mate and begin laying

Quote from: kathyp on July 04, 2009, 11:51:04 am

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

 ;)

Title: Re: what should I do?
Post by: Michael Bush on July 05, 2009, 12:36:14 pm

http://www.bushfarms.com/beesmath.htm