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Post by Dillon Blankenship on May 26, 2017 10:07:51 GMT -7
Is anyone rearing queens locally? I have lost my queen and have a single hive.
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Post by Dillon Blankenship on May 26, 2017 10:13:07 GMT -7
I guess I should add that I am in Corvallis. I've been tracking the queen cells and am confident that they made at least two new queens (cells capped 8 days ago, and open now), but it would be worth it to me to not risk losing my hive this summer by providing a queen. Hive was started from a nuc in April.
Dillon
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Post by drew on May 27, 2017 13:20:19 GMT -7
If you install a queen, with virgin (or any queen for that matter). She will be killed.
Open queen cells? You sit tight for the next 3-4 weeks. Anything installed will be removed.
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Post by Dillon Blankenship on May 29, 2017 13:24:25 GMT -7
Thanks, Drew. I appreciate your confidence. If I had started two hives instead of one (like I knew I should), I'd be sitting in tall cotton.
See you around.
Dillon
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Post by Aristotel Condrea on Sept 13, 2019 7:54:48 GMT -7
I have a less than a year good laying queen. Just come and get her.Ph. 541-740-5873
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Post by mOrloff on Jun 28, 2020 17:29:23 GMT -7
HELP! I think I need a queen.
I'm near Salem and only have a single hive (top bar).
Captured a swarm from my neighbor's in April. I didn't actually see the queen, but I'm pretty sure I got her because it was late evening and I got most of the bees. The next afternoon there were quite a few bees back where I had captured the swarm from, and my hive where looked to have about half as many bees as I had dumped in the day prior.
I went back and recaptured, definitely saw the queen that time, and re-dumped into the hive.
Fast forward a few months (more details available if requested), and they've still only got a little comb built. There are a few larvae (maybe a dozen or so), and my guess is they're drones. No queen to be seen.
HELP! I think I need a Queen asap.
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