Today a full inspection was done on all of the hives in my home yard. The green hive appears to have a lot of honey in the top box. They may actually have too much honey in it and it may be hindering their ability to raise brood. It may also be causing them to be too crowded and make them want to swarm. Both of the large hives had many swarm cups in them but none of the cups had any queens in them.
The Nucleus hives both have a few emergency queen cells formed up. The picture bellow shows a double queen cell. As in there are two queens currently developing side by side. (One higher and the other lower).
This is a better view of those queen cells. See how the bees just chose a few cells to transform into queens in the middle of the frame? They choose which eggs to develop based on how old the eggs are and they begin to immediately feed it royal jelly.
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| Emergency queen cells |
This was what my little yard looked like at the end of the day. Notice the queen excluders and the honey supers sitting on top of the big hives. It is time to collect honey!
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| Large hives have honey supers added |
The Nucleus hives both have a few emergency queen cells formed up. The picture bellow shows a double queen cell. As in there are two queens currently developing side by side. (One higher and the other lower).
This is a better view of those queen cells. See how the bees just chose a few cells to transform into queens in the middle of the frame? They choose which eggs to develop based on how old the eggs are and they begin to immediately feed it royal jelly.
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