Christina joined the fun, the 9 Carnica cells not hatched ,but the yellow Q bees had pulled queen cells - so much for isolation for 5 days - which were hatching as we stood there. So one went into small wooden super 4 frames, together with unopened Qcells, with two frames bees and honey & pollen stores. Closed for 24 hours.
Second into a dirty Kieler, with some shaken bees made wet with new spray - 14.95€ from Aveve - closed and left on bar under ash trees. Closed for 24h.
Final Q , we were pretty sure that a third queen had hatched, we left her in the hive, hopefully she will survive, get fertilised and start laying.
Inspected the Qcells in the top of the red swarm hive, only two capped, one in the cage, and one clean one. Both cages closed.
Did i say i found the green queen, poorly marked twice cos i didn't shake the pen, she is laying in the right hand of the two folding frame chambers. I thought i had killed her with double marking etc, but she'd been in the folding frame!
sat evening i had opened the two virgins from the previous batch, they came out and circled in number.
As i collected the empty Qcell from the 7 frame wooden super, Hilde was stung by a bee. Apis granules seemed to work that evening, but the following morning very swollen and even swollen tongue on monday. Dr says extreme allergic reaction that needs Adrelin shot quickly if stung again!!
Wedsnesday morning; three virgins emerged first thing, put them into three yellow mini, minis with bees in a bucket from yellow's old hive and red daughter of Yellow. Saw red Q, she's laying ok quite a bit of young brood, but only on 4 frames, so not that many bees, perhaps stopped in the May/june gap?
Looked into the old brussels swarm hive with new green Q, QNS, brood on 5 frames, not that many bees, 7/10 expected.
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