Saturday, June 22, 2013

Latest status

I was able to find the red marked hybrid queen. She has apparently been laying a lot since there are lots of uncapped larvae. There are also lots of drones left over from the old queen. The new queen is working on about 5 frames. There is still syrup in the bucket so I am going to leave her alone until next week I think.

I was able to find the unmarked Italian queen laying eggs in the upper box. The bees are working 2-3 frames in the upper box. The lower box has about 6 frames of brood: capped, uncapped and eggs and some honey and pollen around the edges of the brood. Overall this queen is looking really good. Again there is still syrup in the bucket so I think I can leave her alone until next weekend.

The temperature today is about 80 degrees so I don't think my inspection disturbed the larvae too much. We'll see how things look next weekend.


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