July 2018

So I have a hive and a NUC that are in the process of creating their own queens from supercedure cells.  Counting back in the queen calendar from when I first noticed the capped queen cells there should be eggs in the hives today if the virgin queens were successful in their nuptial flights. I […]

Well, I figured that the 4th of July would be a good day to dig into the “Bees Rules” hive to catch and mark the new queen from Snyder’s.  Three frames into the first brood box I ran into a frame with several capped supercedure cells.  I very carefully and thoroughly inspected every frame to