.......... no sign of any new queen in the main hive! Hope she was just hiding somewhere, however I did see a small amount of larvae on one frame and theory has it that because the old queen as removed 13 days ago they might be to do with a new queen, however as the queen cells were capped 13 days ago I have no idea when the queen would have hatched and then a week later made her mating flight, all sounds a bit improbable to me!
Will have to wait until next time to see if there is a queen in there, if not then guess it will be the quickest a colony had been reunited with the old queen they were trying to get rid of, failing that I need to buy a queen on the internet and get it posted a bit quick!
On the plus side the old queen seems very happy in the nucleus box and no signs of any queen cells in there.
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