Ok, so, what is shaping up to be a crap wet spring actually cleared for a couple of hours yesterday so I got to have a quick look.
I’m 99.9% sure there is a queen in there, I gave the brood box two complete sweeps, but to no avail. Couldn’t see her. There is however lots of nicely laid eggs, lots of larvae from small to large, and some sealed brewed as well. The population was good enough for me to add the honey super back onto the hive. So the drama seems to be over. I still have no idea where the queen came from, but she does seem to be in there somewhere.
One of the flow frames that I put back in the super, had a few cells (and I mean only 20 or so) that had very small air bubbles on the surface. I assume this is a little bit of fermenting. Since it was such a small number of cells, I put the frame on anyway. Anyone know if that’ll be OK?
Cheers
Ron
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