It's been 8 days after a cut out and no eggs

[Stevezone5]

Here is some information:

There was a hive in this house for at least two years but.  This spring I was asking him if he was seeing any bees flying and he always answered NO. I figured that the massive amounts of "spray" that he applied last year must have done the job.

That was until Thursday 5-9 when he called and said my friends were finally awake and flying more than ever. Humm  at this point the weather was great for three weeks prior and he should have seen them flying before this??

We cut the hive out on 5-18

During the cutout we were unable to find any brood, only new comb that was being filled with honey (all of it was uncapped). This totaled about 5 frames of a super.

There was clear evidence of old comb that was mostly removed. (not by us)

We left the hive near the old entrance until dark. This new hive consisted of a deep with foundation and a super with a few frames of uncapped honey and the rest foundation less frames.

While I was admiring the amount of bees I did get to see a small march. It wasn't a lot of the bees but they did line up head to tail marched in

I have a few concerns.

1) I thought I was being too aggressive with the bee vac but in the end there was less than a hand full of dead bees in the vac. Is the queen just as durable than the workers?

2) I am assuming this was a swarm that just moved into the old hive. How long before I should see eggs? During an inspection on 5-23 i was unable to locate the queen. They have nearly all of the super drawn out and only a little in the deep. I am planning on taking another look on 5-29.

3) at this point what would you do?

I don't know if i should give them frames of brood from our 2lb packages that we installed on 4-29 I think I would rather let them build their numbers.

So wait longer? Buy a queen? is it OK to take a frame of eggs/brood from a small package this time of year?

Thanks for your thoughts

Steve

[Michael Bush]

Assuming you didn't get the queen and they raised a new one, I would not expect to see eggs from the new one for about three weeks.  8 days is not even long enough for her to emerge.  After she emerges, you need another two weeks to get her mated.

http://bushfarms.com/beesmath.htm

[Stevezone5]

Thanks   I'm a bit more at ease