Queen cell, and another and another.........

I opened the hive today, not really knowing what I would find.

The Queen cups I had seen on the last inspection were now fully fledged queen cells, with more on the way, there must have been over a dozen of them!

Fortunately I had found the queen on the super frame for drone culling, so placed that frame into my nuc box along with the only three frames that had no queen cells on, making up the remainder of the nuc with some new brood frames.

These lady bees can be quite brutal, the queen is less than a year old and already they want her out!

So now in theory I will have two hives, so where do I put the second one? Dad's seems the ideal solution, popped down to see him and agree where to put the hive. Eileen casually mentions that she is allergic to wasp stings, the next one might kill her! So not a good idea to put the hive at dads, will have to put my thinking cap on.

I was a bit worried that I might not have dealt with the queen cells correctly so put a call out to Mike of Beesnbeans, it seems I have done ok with the exception of leaving too many queen cells in the original hive. So must get back in there and destroy all but two of the queen cells.

Exciting stuff, I wonder if I will get to see the virgin queen's flight? Or will I end up with no bees at all!