Are They Supersedure or Swarm Cells? - Beesource Beekeeping Forums The high success rate of supersedure is a credit to the moxie of the virgin queen My records indicate that supersedure is successful about 95% of the time in this area Back to the sketch: The indications of supersedure are queen cells of nearly the same stage of development, located at the fringe area of the brood nest
Supersedure or emergency queen cells and what to do There are some general differences between supersedure and emergency cells, but those differences take a little experience to judge Remember that E cells are built around an egg larva already in development when the emergency comes up So, an early indication is the stage of development of the queen larva vs development of surrounding worker
Destroying Supersedure Cell - A Mistake? | Beesource Beekeeping Forums This week, in addition to three swarm cells, I found what I assume was a capped supersedure cell (in middle left side of a brood frame as opposed to the swarm cells I have been finding along the bottoms of the frames) I destroyed that supersedure cell along with the swarm cells
Swarm or supersedure cell? How should we proceed? Took a peek tonight and am leaning toward supersedure Tonight we found 1 capped QC, 2 uncapped QCs with visible larvae, and 3-4 empty QCs In addition, we could not find any recently layed eggs The larvae that we saw in our inspection a couple days ago appears to now be capped
How To Tell The Difference Between Emergency Supersedure Cells vs . . . Re: How To Tell The Difference Between Emergency Supersedure Cells vs Swarm Cells There are no such thing as swarm or supercedure cells Bees build queencells to either supercede their queen or swarm, typically the number of cells gives it away
Transferring frame with supersedure cells | Beesource Beekeeping Forums Second year beekeeper with 4 hives and 2 currently queenless I caught a swarm in April from one of these hives and opted to purchase a mated queen for the old hive and so I destroyed all supersedure cells in it bad decision An unforeseen delay left the hive queenless 3 wks
Supersedure cells on new nuc—what to do? I installed 5 nucs 17 days ago There were queen cells in one hive when I installed it I could find no eggs I got a queen from the guy who sold me the nucs and went to install her and saw the queen So I didn’t install the new one Now another week has gone by and I did another inspection There are like 7 supersedure cells in there
Swarm cells AND supersedure cells on same frame? These are emergency cells and not supersedure or swarm cells Supersedure cells are purpose built and stand out from the comb a lot more than yours Your cells are drawn out from worker brood - indicating an emergency They will also build them all over the colony in hopes of getting just one good queen They can be at the top, bottom, doesn't
supersedure cells with no brood | Beesource Beekeeping Forums I went thru my hives yesterday, and the last one had no brood at all except for 2 supersedure cells; I would expect that there were egs around them and the bees selected 2 to make queens with, but it would follow that there would be brood around them, at least on the same frame, adjacent frames