supercedure cell on 3rd week inspection

bossqwjw · June 22, 2011, 06:18:05 PM

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?

Bennettoid · June 22, 2011, 06:39:39 PM

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.

iddee · June 22, 2011, 06:48:01 PM

Was it a package? They are saying over 50% of packages are superceding this year.I would just let them do what they want.

caticind · June 22, 2011, 07:56:09 PM

Too small to split, so there's not much to do other than let them supercede if that is what they want.

schawee · June 22, 2011, 08:19:20 PM

leave the queen cell .the bees know what they want. ........ schawee

sterling · June 22, 2011, 08:31:23 PM

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?

bossqwjw · June 22, 2011, 09:56:13 PM

It is a nuc.

Strawberry Plains is east of Knoxville, about half way between Knoxville and Sevierville.

sc-bee · June 23, 2011, 02:49:48 AM

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