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Lawrence Cooke wrote:
> ..I looked in the hive and found an freshly opened Queen cell. So I closed it up..Today I took out frames to look of eggs and found no eggs AND no brood from old Queen. This is one of my 3 pound that I started two months ago.
Lawrence,
If you have a newly hatched queen cell, it will be at least 2 weeks, and
usually more like 4 weeks, before the new queen begins to lay. It would
be nice to know if you do have a virgin queen, if so no danger of laying
workers. Depending on your nectar flow, a break in the brood cycle
could be a good thing. Here in coastal Southcentral Alaska, I cage my
queens about the middle of July.
--
"Test everything. Hold on to the good." (1 Thessalonians 5:21)
Tom Elliott
Chugiak, Alaska
U.S.A.
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