I’ve also had a lot of queenless hives after swarms this year - had to buy multiple queens - one hive killed the introduced queen after they released her. Not gonna have much honey this year due to low populations.
Hopefully they sort themselves out soon I have now found that i have 3 hives with queen activity and 2 introduced queens , fingers crossed they are accepted
Hi There! I am having a very similar scenario in my apiary this year. I installed 2 packages on March 30th & 1 had an unmatted queen that filled the frames with drones and then failed to make a new queen from a doner frame of eggs. About 3 weeks I ago I discovered the queen in the other colony was gone, but population was too high to have swarmed, but I did find a queen cell that also was still there after 3 weeks, so I image it's just like yours, empty. This is my 4th year and without a doubt the oddest year, with the bees doing so much that defies my training and experience, I've been just scratching my head.
I feel your pain, im in year 3 as a beekeeper, last year was a disaster, i had a flood that effected my hives and they didnt recover but this spring they started out awesome, intil may june i had a swarm i caught, decided on a few splits, one of them has a queen. Its hard to keep tabs at this point , im just hoping things start looking better soon, maybe a queen thats unmated or hiding out. Best of luck to you
Hi. If that cell was empty, it probably produced a queen. It's very common for the bees to close up a cell after the queen has emerged, often with a worker inside it. I think you should leave them for a while and see how they get on.
I did not know this. Interesting. I have given them a frame of eggs, larvae and some brood ( june 11th ) so if they need a queen i will expect to see a new queen cell, whereas if they know they dont need a new queen then i imagine they will just help the brood along.
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I’ve also had a lot of queenless hives after swarms this year - had to buy multiple queens - one hive killed the introduced queen after they released her. Not gonna have much honey this year due to low populations.
Hopefully they sort themselves out soon
I have now found that i have 3 hives with queen activity and 2 introduced queens , fingers crossed they are accepted
Also you could try joining the queenless hives with the queenright hive, using the newspaper method. Re-split when the weather is better.
I’ve definitely got to consider my options
Hi There! I am having a very similar scenario in my apiary this year. I installed 2 packages on March 30th & 1 had an unmatted queen that filled the frames with drones and then failed to make a new queen from a doner frame of eggs. About 3 weeks I ago I discovered the queen in the other colony was gone, but population was too high to have swarmed, but I did find a queen cell that also was still there after 3 weeks, so I image it's just like yours, empty. This is my 4th year and without a doubt the oddest year, with the bees doing so much that defies my training and experience, I've been just scratching my head.
I feel your pain, im in year 3 as a beekeeper, last year was a disaster, i had a flood that effected my hives and they didnt recover but this spring they started out awesome, intil may june i had a swarm i caught, decided on a few splits, one of them has a queen. Its hard to keep tabs at this point , im just hoping things start looking better soon, maybe a queen thats unmated or hiding out.
Best of luck to you
Not enough population in there to have two boxes on there! I would only add another box after 9 frames of bee coverage!
Ive had population decline in several of my hives, i have been adjusting space as per requirements but just this can be reduced
This has been the same in the UK this year. Most virgin queen's have failed due to weather. A very strange year indeed.
It sucks because i pushed the envelope a lot from where i was last year, trying new things, some success some failure to be expected i guess
Hi. If that cell was empty, it probably produced a queen. It's very common for the bees to close up a cell after the queen has emerged, often with a worker inside it. I think you should leave them for a while and see how they get on.
I did not know this. Interesting.
I have given them a frame of eggs, larvae and some brood ( june 11th ) so if they need a queen i will expect to see a new queen cell, whereas if they know they dont need a new queen then i imagine they will just help the brood along.