I have a 10 Frame hive with 1 brood box and
3 medium supers. my queen has moved out
Of the brood box And started laying in the first
Medium box. I could not find the queen,but I
Did find 4 queen cells that had eggs and royal
Jelly in them. . I have to
Buy a queen for another box should I get one
For this one. What do I need to do
I would wait 4 days, then cut out two queen cells after they are capped and put them in the queenless hive. Then both hives will have a queen and you will save the cost of a queen.
How can I get the bees to move back down in
The brood box
A queen excluder would stop them from moving up further.
The only downside with raising your own queen would be an extended brood break. However a brood break is probably a good thing down south as the heat sets in and things dry up; unless you have a weak hive.
just leave it like it is . she will move back down in the brood box.after the cells hatch they will probably back filll with honey.i never use queen excluders and when she gets in the honey super and lay eggs they hatch and they back fill with honey.she will not lay all over the hive.most of the time she will lay in the first super then move back down. .......schawee
She will lay just under the stored food. If more nectar comes in, she will move down. If not, she will move up as supplies dwindle.
Is the brood box full?
It sounds to me like the queen is still there by you saying that she's "started laying in the first Medium box". Do another hive check in a couple of days and see if more cells have eggs in them...she's probably there.
I'm just learning about bees and I don't know exactly how it's done, but it seems to me like you're going to have a couple of new homegrown queens that you could use rather than buy one. If you do a search here on the site I would think you could find out the process.
Ed
The brood box does not have a single
Egg in it. Thanks for the help
Quote from: javah on June 29, 2011, 05:13:45 PM
The brood box does not have a single
Egg in it. Thanks for the help
Are there a lot of empty cells in the comb of the brood box or is it 3/4 or more full of brood, honey, pollen,...?
All stores are above or beside the brood. It will always be like that unless the beek changes it, then in a few days the bees will put it back. Honey and pollen above and all around the brood, but never under it.