This picture was from our queenless hive. If you remember, we had added a frame of brood to this hive after losing the queen we had seen. We are guessing she was eaten by a bird or bug while she was out on her mating flights. Well, the bees found a young larvae (less than 36 hours old), that they liked and have made a queen. This picture is a capped queen cell. The time for her to hatch, harden up, take her mating flight(s), and begin laying is about 28 days. We waited about 30 days before we checked on her again. We had high hopes this queen would actually come back home. We prayed our luck would change with our queens!
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