New queen in new home

New queen now in the hive, colony doesn't look strong, fingers crossed they accept her and she starts laying quickly, she's a mated queen so no delay while she goes out to visit the guys, all being well in five weeks time new worker bees will be foraging.

Regicide :-(

Yet another new queen bee on the way to me in the post, the last one has decided to be a drone layer and the colony is quietly fading away. This time have a mated Buckfast queen on her way, (http://www.honeybeesuppliers.co.uk/buckfastqueens/breeding/breeding.html), had better warn the ladies that open the post at work!

Now all I will need to do is kill the old queen so they don't fight it out to the death! Not something I relish doing.

PS also due to pick up a new nuc, (starter colony), in a couple of weeks, one colony is just too problematical, now will have some alternatives to manage my bees.