Dave and I inspected the two hives and the NUC today- a small, three- to five-frame beehive, we set aside to raise a queen...you know just in case we needed one since we were not sure if we captured the queen in the swarm.
The original hive appears to have a queen...she's new and not yet laying eggs...brood is sparse. Something to keep an eye in the next 10 days. She needs to get down to business and start pumping out 1000+eggs a day if she's going to stay around.
When we went into the new hive created by the SWARM we were hopeful to spot the Mother Queen from the original hive but no such luck. She must have been the one that got away! Anyhow, we put the NUC frames in this hive with a few queen cells so hopefully we'll have a queen sometime soon...if not, we'll have to find one to purchase to keep this hive up and running.
On a positive note we noticed a lot of honey in the first hive so that's a good sign...they are working hard and we may have honey to extract come June. Fingers are crossed!
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| Plenty of bees but no Queen... |
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