I have one queen which seem to be a little bit damaged on the adbomen and also moves in a weird way, but she is still a great egg layer -this colony has recently began to raise again a lot of drones (my other colonies almost ceased to raise drones), there are mostly uncapped drone brood cells
could be a sign the bees will supercede the damaged queen shortly ? or might be a late (overcrowding) swarm ?
-the colony is rather strong in 3 deeps ( it was started in April from a 7 frame nuc), but it doesn't look like they are overcrowded
thank you for any suggestion
>could be a sign the bees will supercede the damaged queen shortly ?
It's probably a sign that it's that time of year. There's a flow and they can afford the resources to rear them and it's early enough they could still swarm, so they want to keep some drones around.
A supersedure cell would be a sigh they will be replacing her...
yes, but the other colonies virtually have no drone brood....
and there is no strong flow around my area at the moment....will be checking them this weekend
thank you MB