2021-09-17 No signs of a laying queen. Just three frames of bees. United on top of Wren.
2021-09-04 Not so many bees so I took off the supers. Maybe they swarmed while we were away. There are polished cells but no sign of eggs.
2021-08-20 It is three weeks since the queen came out and there are no signs of eggs so I added a queen cell from Berenice on a frame in a paper bag.
2021-08-08 No eggs but there were polished brood cells.
2021-08-01 The cell with the red pin had popped and still had a lid attached. No eggs but there were polished brood cells. The top super is pretty heavy and there are lots of bees so will add another super so I can remove the top one for extraction.
2021-07-26 At about 13hrs00 loads of bees came out an swirled about looking like they might swarm, but then went back in again after about 20 minutes. Mating flight?
2021-07-25 Since Winnie was laying. I thought I would check this one too. No signs of laying. However there were a couple of opened queen cells and about five sealed queen cells. I cull all but one of the sealed queen cells. The remaining queen cell is marked with a red pin on the second frame from the North.
2021-07-14 Culled all the emergency queen cells, I am hoping the un-mated queen is still in there.
2021-07-08 Made up with 11 frames from Berenice and removed to the side. There was a clearly emerged queen cell despite the fact that I found the queen and there were eggs. Also there were various other queen cells in a range of states. I guess they might have been superceding and swarming at the same time. Why not? It would be a good summertime plan. Anyway I am assuming that the queen is there so I will cull any queen cells in a week to ensure that no other queens can be raised.