I just inspected my Warre hive and in the top box I found what looks like a capped queen cell. I had a nuc box with me so I took that comb out and put it in the nuc box and continued on with the inspection confident that I would find more queen cells. I didn't, and I looked very carefully. Any ideas? I found a couple more little practice cups but they were empty. thanks
First welcome to the forum. Could be a supercedure cell? Could just be the first one the queen laid in? I hope some others will chime in with their opinions. I just went through a hive of mine and found about three or four queen cells with larva and about ten to fifteen empty queen cups. I assume the queen just hadn't gotten around to laying in them yet. Hope this helps some.
Thanks Cao for the welcome and the advice. I think I'll just keep an eye on it and do another inspection in a couple of days and see if I spot more queen cells.
Welcome to the forum. Great people here.
In my [limited] experience, when they want a new queen, they'll make a bunch of queen cells and you'll know something's up. When they're not serious, they do those practice ones and tear them down. I often see a couple of cups during an inspection. When I've seen capped qcells, there have been a bunch of them of the same age. No lingering and dawdling doing one at a time.
Hope you have a great year.