Queen Mating Flight

Today we saw activity on the front of the hive that looked like a mating flight return! Let's open the hive and take a look!
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[@altaylor293]

Nice video Greg. Good looking queen!

[@NaturesImageFarmGregBurns]

Thankyou sir! Time to go check to see if she’s laying:)

[@brandonn5371]

2:25 you point out the “virgin queen” but the subject of this video was the return of a mated queen. So she’s no longer a virgin queen 😉😁👍

[@NaturesImageFarmGregBurns]

Good observation. While she was definitely on a mating flight, until I see eggs...she’s a Virgin. However, the next day after taking the video I saw eggs and confirmed my observation at the entrance.

[@jimboholcomb1]

Bravo, that's cool. Keep throwing that knowledge.

[@NaturesImageFarmGregBurns]

Thx for watching Jimbo!

[@manoszervos976]

So the mating takes place in the beehive? For I read that the Queen flies to a special drone site.....

[@Dougarrowhead]

Excellent!

[@scotthenderson4376]

Had a queen emerge on the 4th and saw the rest of the cells being torn apart. Its now the 9th any ideas when I should expect to see her back? So far I haven't seen her since emerging and no increase in bees either. Fingers crossed

[@catchemalive]

I’m doing my first mating nuc right now and have 5 queen cups that are just now being capped over!!! About how long does it take from when they hatch out to then go on a mating flight and come back home?? 3-5 days??? I read in the comments where you said the next day you saw eggs so I’m assuming that very quickly once she comes back she will begin laying. 👍

[@NaturesImageFarmGregBurns]

Takes around 6-7 days to cap a cell, 6-8 days to emerge and up to 7-10 days to go on a mating flight. If the conditions are right inside the hive and there is pollen and nectar, we've seen them lay within 24hrs of coming home.

[@lordsmobileigg8890]

For how many days queen went out from yr hive for mating or did she really came bck to yr nuc after mating flight??

[@aaronparis4714]

Lol I never seen a thing better video needed

[@joychandrasinghshamjetshab9420]

I heard new queen is mating with drones for mating flight, how to mate without flying artificially

[@peppershake414]

Can you tell it's a new virgin queen just by looking at her, or did this hive have no queen, so you know she is a new queen?

[@konradrueb1567]

👍👍👍🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝😉