No egg-laying is happening in this hive yet. Either there is a new queen who isn't mature enough yet, or there is no queen. Stay tuned for further updates as they come to hand!
Monday, September 26, 2011
Drones
Opening the hive to check on how it is going since last week's swarm (and a secondary swarm last night which we hope we caught this time - more on that later).
That's a bunch of drones sitting on top of the queen-excluder. If you click on the picture to enlarge it, you might be able to see the difference between the drones and the workers - there are a couple of workers in this picture. Drones have bigger eyes than worker bees, as well as bigger bodies. They don't have stingers, though.
No egg-laying is happening in this hive yet. Either there is a new queen who isn't mature enough yet, or there is no queen. Stay tuned for further updates as they come to hand!
No egg-laying is happening in this hive yet. Either there is a new queen who isn't mature enough yet, or there is no queen. Stay tuned for further updates as they come to hand!
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i could see the difference, the workers seem to have the stripes too.
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