Hi everyone

Usually when reading about queens or cage nutritional experiments the
concept comes around. That a queen will only perform with high quality for
the first two "brood cycles" or that after two "brood cycles" such or such
recipe or ingredient will fail to produce quality bees or bees at all.

Therefore the question are what is? and how long last? a brood cycle.

As I imagine a brood cycle, as the time it takes to a worker bee to become a
nurse bee starting as egg on day one. Therefore it should be 21 days plus 3
to 11 days; the last figure if one wants to end the cycle when that bee
becomes a wax producer. 21+11=32 days.

One can extend the concept to include the whole hive at maximun queen
"normal" capacity. And here I get a bit confused. I observe that "normal"
hive development will be the brood area using the whole brood chamber plus a
good part of the first super, after some 60 days, starting as a swarm of
bees that cover 6 to 7 frames.

But observe also that a colony which have been given two full 9 frames
supers at autum will fill up the 3 tiers by mid spring and be ready to
swarm. No queen excluder.

How many frames would the queen had complete in those 60 to 90 days to bring
its colony to that normal 15 frames of brood before it swarms?


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