New beek needs advice

Started by halexaron, August 27, 2015, 09:20:56 PM

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(I'm repeating some of what chux said - mainly because I didn't want to go back and edit)(lazy me)

Are you pretty versed at spotting queens and/or eggs? I use jeweler's visors to find eggs a lot of time. My concern would be two fold, it could be a new queen hasn't started laying yet and if they are queen less then laying workers may set in. You saw drone brood? Was it organized? say maybe on the bottom or was it spotty? Laying workers can only make drones, sometimes new queens will miss fire and lay messy before getting things right. That includes laying drones.
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chux

Laying workers will typically not center a single egg in the cell. I've also had freshly mated queens who took a few tries to get it right.