http://www.littleluceyfarm.com/honeybees/index.php/2015/05/liz-and-todd-prepare-q4-for-the-next-step-supersedure-impulse/ Trying to get a handle on these amazing creatures Sun, 24 Apr 2016 00:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.35 http://www.littleluceyfarm.com/honeybees/index.php/2015/05/liz-and-todd-prepare-q4-for-the-next-step-supersedure-impulse/#comment-55 Wed, 06 May 2015 14:23:36 +0000 http://www.littleluceyfarm.com/honeybees/?p=645#comment-55 There is a queen excluder between the two boxes, so the old queen cannot get to the cells. We will remove the cells before they hatch, because, indeed, the virgins good get through the excluder and go after the mother queen.
I also believe that the mother does not have a sense of removing queen cells. This would be the job of the bees, but they are the ones that build the cells, so I hope that they go with the plan and keep nurturing the cells.

]]> http://www.littleluceyfarm.com/honeybees/index.php/2015/05/liz-and-todd-prepare-q4-for-the-next-step-supersedure-impulse/#comment-54 Wed, 06 May 2015 03:31:04 +0000 http://www.littleluceyfarm.com/honeybees/?p=645#comment-54 Does this mean that you are expecting the bees to supersede the existing queen? Will they kill or kick out the current queen just before the new queens emerge? Or might the current queen now try to kill all the new queens before they emerge? Or might the workers pick up the queen scent and abandon the new cells?

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