2025-06-21 Turns out that Regina is still there and all the frames are laid up. So I guess the little brown queen didn’t make it. We remarked her for good measure.
2025-06-13 All the paper is gone from the end of the Butler cage. There were eggs but no grubs yet. We saw a smallish light coloured queen. But she was unmarked so I am guessing that Regina didn’t make it and this is a late queen from a cell that I missed. Maybe. It is a bit hard to tell.
2025-06-07 Since there is no sign of a queen, I transferred Regina back in using a Butler cage.
2025-06-06 Probably queenless, no eggs or grubs. The queen cell we left was broken open on the side. I guess there is a chance that there was a cell we left but I think it unlikely. Moved towards Bobby so that the bees can be merged with another colony, maybe Belinda.-regina.html)
2025-05-06 Culled to one queen cell on the bottom of frame 6 marked with a green pin.
2025-04-28 Frames with eggs from Regina to raise an emergency queen. There are loads of bees so it should be fine.