Made stupid mistake today!

[ajm]

  I was able to hatch out some queen cells in a couple of hives.  One of them came back to the hive and the other flew into a queenless hive I had.  This was unknowingly though.  I had already had a queen comming and installed it ten days ago.  Like I said I had no idea that this queen had taken up residence in it.  So the queen killed my purchased queen after the queen was released.  I searched for the reason why it was rejected and found this queen.  Well here is where dumb gets stupid:  As I was looking through the hive yesterday I found the queen again and marked her.  I was not sure if I hurt her or not so today I just wanted to check up on her.  I found the green dot very easily today and thought I'll just clip her wing since she is right here.  So I did!  Guess what I forgot to  look for eggs first and then when I did I found none.  I think It could have been at least two weeks that she has been in there.  The hive is actually a nuc that I am trying to get going and had very little food in it.  So yesterday I started feeding it.  I hope she has been bred and the food promotes laying of eggs.  I am not holding my breath though!


ajm