Eggs didn't hatch?

[derrick1p1]

Last week I found one of my hives queenless.  Gave them a frame of brood and eggs.  Next day I decided to combine with another hive being this late in the summer.  I went in yesterday to combine and found that the capped brood had emerged, but none of the eggs hatched. 


2 Questions:

1)Why would they not hatch?  I have them the frame on a warm day, the frame was not outside of hive for more than a minute.

2) When I combine this deep with the all medium weak hive, what should I do with the deep frames of pollen/upcapped honey?  I no longer need the deep frames.

If you have any ideas, please let me know.

Thanks,
Derrick

[annette]

I am a new beekeeper of three years. I have learned a lot in this time, but I am at a loss what you mean by the eggs did not hatch.

There aren't any eggs to hatch. The queen lays the eggs in the cells and they develop from that, but not understanding what you mean.

Can someone please help here??

[rast]

 Can't help you on the eggs, but you can cut the deep frames down to mediums (comb and frames) and use them in the mediums.

[bmacior]

After 3 days eggs hatch into larvae.  Why they didn't develop I don't know. :?

Barb

[Michael Bush]

>1)Why would they not hatch?  I have them the frame on a warm day, the frame was not outside of hive for more than a minute.

Were they in the brood nest?  Eggs outside the brood nest are often removed or ignored.

>2) When I combine this deep with the all medium weak hive, what should I do with the deep frames of pollen/upcapped honey?  I no longer need the deep frames.

Harvest.

[1of6]

Were they exposed to sunlight for any amount of time, and if so how long?  Direct sunlight can be detrimental to eggs and brood if exposure lasts for any significant amount of time.  Just a thought.

[derrick1p1]

There aren't any eggs to hatch. The queen lays the eggs in the cells and they develop from that, but not understanding what you mean.

Can someone please help here??

The eggs the queen layed were present 7 days after I put them into the queenless hive.  So odd.  They did not become larvae.  I'm going to look in there again to day to make sure I'm not losing my mind.  The only sunlight they were exposed to was when I was looking for them (something I do often without any problems).  My only thought is that the eggs were ignored by the hive (they may have been in the upper 2 supers with the honey?) and may not have developed? 

After I check again, I'll let you know what I find.

Thanks guys,
Derrick

[Brian D. Bray]

There aren't any eggs to hatch. The queen lays the eggs in the cells and they develop from that, but not understanding what you mean.

Can someone please help here??

The eggs the queen layed were present 7 days after I put them into the queenless hive.  So odd.  They did not become larvae.  I'm going to look in there again to day to make sure I'm not losing my mind.  The only sunlight they were exposed to was when I was looking for them (something I do often without any problems).  My only thought is that the eggs were ignored by the hive (they may have been in the upper 2 supers with the honey?) and may not have developed? 

After I check again, I'll let you know what I find.

Thanks guys,
Derrick

Eggs not covered by bees within the hive or left out too long during inspections will die and not develop, sounds like what happened here.