Monday, April 11, 2011

Addendum Day 2

Update. I removed the queen cage from the front of Hive B and discovered it had been mounted upside down and I not removed the cork from the candy end but from the open end. This means that the bees had immediate access to the queen; meaning if they were not yet acclimated to her they may have killed her immediately. That would be bad. To add another twist I found an emergent queen cell in the bottom of storage box B meaning there may possibly be more than one queen in that hive. All very strange, but what I do know is that Hive B appears pretty pissed off. Don't know why and will wait and observe another 24 hours before making any decisions. If they settle down by tomorrow and seem to be drawing out comb things are probably ok.

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