During my 3rd inspection I found the queen, almost 7 to 8 drawn out frames, and a queen cell almost half way up on a frame. I suppose its a supercedure cell, already capped.
The queen appears to be doing okay, been laying in a couple of frames. got brood, larva, lots of bees.
Do I replace her? let the girls do what they do? My question is what now?
Are you sure it's not a drone cell?
I wouldn't worry about it. Let the girls do their thing. I have a hive that I haven't replaced the queen for about 8 years, and its the strongest hive I have.
Was it a package? They are saying over 50% of packages are superceding this year.I would just let them do what they want.
Too small to split, so there's not much to do other than let them supercede if that is what they want.
leave the queen cell .the bees know what they want. ........ schawee
I installed three packages on April 20. The forth week one hive had supercedure cells I let them do their thing. I check them weekly they now have a queen, larva, capped brood, necter and pollen one month after supercedure but are way behind the other two packages. The other two are drawing comb in a third medium box and have capped honey in there and I haven't fed since there third week. This supercedure hive is still in the first box and are very week.
BTW where is strawberry plains TN?
It is a nuc.
Strawberry Plains is east of Knoxville, about half way between Knoxville and Sevierville.
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