Sunday, June 7, 2015
I just had to look today
Olea's swarmed 10 or 11 days ago. I was anxious to see how it was doing, so I figured I had waited long enough.
I looked through the hive starting a couple of bars from the back all the way to the front. There were a lot of drones, empty cells that looked like they had contained brood in the past. No queen. No larvae seen and no eggs appreciated. I did see 3 uncapped queen cells. There were a few capped cells that looked like drone cells on one of the back combs.
The usual question: What is going on?
One must have faith in nature. The bees know what they are doing. I know that at least one queen has emerged. Perhaps it is just too soon for her to have mated, started laying and the larvae large enough for me to see. I will wait at least another week. I have one nuc to fall back on if there is a need for a queen. (Only one nuc left; I sold the other one yesterday to a Ben Lomond beek.)
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