Your Majesty, WHERE ARE YOU?
Jun. 15th, 2003 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
persephone_koreBother.
Eighteen days since my bees decided to swarm. Ten and nine since the two afterswarms. Stupid bees. I GAVE them extra room, they haven't had a lack of food (aside from the feeding, it's been raining a lot, and they've been drawing out comb in the upper brood chamber and storing a fair amount of nectar...), they're still bringing back pollen -- and there is no brood. Well, there are a few capped drone cells; there was a drone looking out of one at me on his way out. There are a few queen cells, open. From what I've read, there's still a chance (from the timing) that there's a queen there who just hasn't had time to mate and start laying -- and the bees seem to have been behaving perfectly normally since the last swarm and have certainly been busy -- but I would still like to say: ARGH!
I suppose I'd better order a new queen in case there isn't one and/or they lost her. And probably email Mike. Sigh. At least I didn't see any sign of wax moths.
On the bright side, they didn't throw too much of a fit when I lost my grip on a frame and bashed open some of their capped honey on the corner of the hive. Ouch.
Eighteen days since my bees decided to swarm. Ten and nine since the two afterswarms. Stupid bees. I GAVE them extra room, they haven't had a lack of food (aside from the feeding, it's been raining a lot, and they've been drawing out comb in the upper brood chamber and storing a fair amount of nectar...), they're still bringing back pollen -- and there is no brood. Well, there are a few capped drone cells; there was a drone looking out of one at me on his way out. There are a few queen cells, open. From what I've read, there's still a chance (from the timing) that there's a queen there who just hasn't had time to mate and start laying -- and the bees seem to have been behaving perfectly normally since the last swarm and have certainly been busy -- but I would still like to say: ARGH!
I suppose I'd better order a new queen in case there isn't one and/or they lost her. And probably email Mike. Sigh. At least I didn't see any sign of wax moths.
On the bright side, they didn't throw too much of a fit when I lost my grip on a frame and bashed open some of their capped honey on the corner of the hive. Ouch.
