It seems that we may well have a new queen Victoria! in our last tales you will remember that although Victoria had had a new queen at the beginning of the season, and all seemed to be doing well.
Suddenly on our last visit we found six sealed queen cells, ( this normally means that a superseder is going to happen)now this means that ( probably) the early season queen had failed for some reason and the bees need a new one!
This week we have found that she has emerged ( we only left one, other wise the first would have killed the others anyway) , and flown to get we hope to get mated.
We have to leave this hive now for two weeks and then hopefully we will see new eggs or polished cells ready for the new queen to lay in.
As for the other all are doing well, two( Anne, and Elizabeth) have good stores for the coming winter, but Mary looks like she will nee a hand and we will put a feeder on her on the next visit full of sugar water so her swarm can easily build more stores.
I will write again soon. Beee happy!
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