tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27329001.post8409145246711678169..comments2024-03-26T12:17:40.771-04:00Comments on Linda's Bees: Hive Inspection March 29 and 30, 2021Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27329001.post-13437557839040628602021-04-08T13:43:23.044-04:002021-04-08T13:43:23.044-04:00I should have said "they will not have their ...I should have said "they will not have their queen who left with the SWARM..."Linda Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17457279216526140341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27329001.post-52093840247642268072021-04-08T13:39:30.454-04:002021-04-08T13:39:30.454-04:00Hi Esther, I would never crush a queen cell. What ...Hi Esther, I would never crush a queen cell. What I did do is make splits from both of those colonies as soon as I could, using the queen cell frames to hurry the split along. I left each hive with a frame with numerous queen cells on it so that they would not be left queenless. In one hive I saw the queen but you still don't cut the queen cells because the bees might be planning to swarm the next day and if I have destroyed or removed all of their queen cells, I have killed the colony because they will not have their queen who left with the hive and they would not have the insurance they have created to make sure the hive has a queen post the swarm. It is the biological imperative of the hive to have the drive to split into two colonies in the spring to perpetuate bees so I try to discourage them from swarming but never feel like it is my right to destroy the queen cells.Linda Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17457279216526140341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27329001.post-35852963572138730962021-04-08T13:16:31.923-04:002021-04-08T13:16:31.923-04:00Why didn't you go through and crush all the qu...Why didn't you go through and crush all the queen cells? Or would that not prevent them from swarming?Estherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17055586851348748512noreply@blogger.com