# Second Inspection on the new Hive **URL:** \ **Category:** Beekeeping - Basics\ **Tags:** queen-cell\ **Created:** [August 22, 2022, 1:03am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/second-inspection-on-the-new-hive/33500 "2022-08-22T01:03:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![JeffH](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/jeffh/32/7192_2.png) [@JeffH](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/JeffH)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2022, 8:54am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/second-inspection-on-the-new-hive/33500/21 "2022-08-27T08:54:45Z")
Hi Ian, many thanks. I do preemptive swarm prevention splits. Therefore I’m hoping to not find any queen cells. Bare in mind that it’s the start of spring, so even if we act a little too soon, it doesn’t matter because the colony has the rest of spring to rebuild. The main thing is to prevent swarms. I’m not letting my single honey supers get full of bees. I split before that happens. ---
**Author:** ![Dazs\_life](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/dazs_life/32/27490_2.png) [@Dazs\_life](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Dazs_life)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 5:25am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/second-inspection-on-the-new-hive/33500/22 "2022-09-08T05:25:20Z")
**Update** checked the two hives on Monday. 1 had a mated queen, the other a virgin queen. Hopefully when i check end of next week i should start to see eggs. Sunday’s Activity [https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/honeyflow/original/3X/3/9/3997a57b2d33dd3e25c98dda29adfb822eec794e.MP4](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/honeyflow/original/3X/3/9/3997a57b2d33dd3e25c98dda29adfb822eec794e.MP4) This Afternoon [https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/honeyflow/original/3X/f/b/fb4e926559cf717108b607625f96a6f30625ee63.MP4](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/honeyflow/original/3X/f/b/fb4e926559cf717108b607625f96a6f30625ee63.MP4) ---
**Author:** ![djaef](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/djaef/32/28081_2.png) [@djaef](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/djaef)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 6:04am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/second-inspection-on-the-new-hive/33500/23 "2022-09-08T06:04:01Z")
And here I was, thinking I was getting into this for the honey 😉 Looks like I was completely wrong. Thank goodness I like learning new things! ---
**Author:** ![Dazs\_life](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/dazs_life/32/27490_2.png) [@Dazs\_life](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Dazs_life)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 11:49pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/second-inspection-on-the-new-hive/33500/24 "2022-09-26T23:49:07Z")
Update:: Looks like the new queens are goung well. ![309217353_5662797377076162_7639364915052990417_n](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/honeyflow/original/3X/0/d/0d75d574c3c05820220ab606c41348e240668096.jpeg) This one above is a frame from the 5 frame nuc. There is 1 and 1/2 frames that haven’t been drawn out yet. ![308853625_5662797520409481_6112355588860768977_n](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/honeyflow/original/3X/2/5/25e5e562676a8862dd78aa7490d58c7e427621f8.jpeg) ![308853899_5662797390409494_4567875902108921351_n](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/honeyflow/original/3X/2/b/2b47e9efe9bfd6de2df7f6641dfc1b6500d0fa00.jpeg) Above is 2 frames from the 8 frame Flow hive 2+ there is still two frames not drawn out yet., The queens we estimate being 22 days old. “big guess” ---
**Author:** ![JeffH](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/jeffh/32/7192_2.png) [@JeffH](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/JeffH)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 6:45am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/second-inspection-on-the-new-hive/33500/25 "2022-09-27T06:45:25Z")
They are beautiful frames of brood Daz. Absolutely beautiful. You can only guess the age of the queen, based on when the emergency queen cells were built. To my mind, they have a 6 day window with which to build queen cells. Anything from newly laid eggs to larvae on it’s 3rd day of royal jelly. ---
**Author:** ![Dazs\_life](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/dazs_life/32/27490_2.png) [@Dazs\_life](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Dazs_life)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 9:15am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/second-inspection-on-the-new-hive/33500/26 "2022-09-27T09:15:36Z")
Thanks Jeff Well they are from your stock. 👍 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dazs\_life](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/dazs_life/32/27490_2.png) [@Dazs\_life](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Dazs_life)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 8:19am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/second-inspection-on-the-new-hive/33500/27 "2022-09-28T08:19:08Z")
Just a check on the resources coming in to the nuc. This was Monday [https://youtu.be/B6agoDNSph4](https://youtu.be/B6agoDNSph4) [Previous page](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/second-inspection-on-the-new-hive/33500.md?page=1)