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<blockquote data-quote="tommy dave" data-source="post: 7571" data-attributes="member: 25"><p>sounds perfect, now that you know they have capped cells and are raising an emergency queen, think about how long until your next inspection and what you'll be looking for. My suggestion, but as [USER=30]@tristan[/USER] indicated - mileage may vary, and if there are a lot of counter-opinions you should consider them very carefully and think on whether alternative approaches are better, anyway, my suggestion:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They're raising a queen from an egg or young larvae at time of split - so you'll have an emerging queen at around day 14 after the split.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You don't really want to be opening a hive up with a likely just emerged virgin queen running around (that may vary with more experience)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Queen is likely to head out on mating flights +/- a week after hatching (so about 21 days after the split)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You'll likely have brood in young stages about 28 days after the split.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I suggest not opening the hive again until about this time ^ 28 days after the split.</li> </ul><p></p><p></p><p>What were the stores like at the time of the split?</p><p>Also, if you're getting stung through the suit then that's pretty aggro or the suit is really thin (maybe a combo), what's your smoker use and control like? including temperature of smoke (hot smoke is bad).</p><p>If they didn't have a queen at the time of the split then so long as they also had brood frames all stages then they should also be raising a new queen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tommy dave, post: 7571, member: 25"] sounds perfect, now that you know they have capped cells and are raising an emergency queen, think about how long until your next inspection and what you'll be looking for. My suggestion, but as [USER=30]@tristan[/USER] indicated - mileage may vary, and if there are a lot of counter-opinions you should consider them very carefully and think on whether alternative approaches are better, anyway, my suggestion: [LIST] [*]They're raising a queen from an egg or young larvae at time of split - so you'll have an emerging queen at around day 14 after the split. [*]You don't really want to be opening a hive up with a likely just emerged virgin queen running around (that may vary with more experience) [*]Queen is likely to head out on mating flights +/- a week after hatching (so about 21 days after the split) [*]You'll likely have brood in young stages about 28 days after the split. [*]I suggest not opening the hive again until about this time ^ 28 days after the split. [/LIST] What were the stores like at the time of the split? Also, if you're getting stung through the suit then that's pretty aggro or the suit is really thin (maybe a combo), what's your smoker use and control like? including temperature of smoke (hot smoke is bad). If they didn't have a queen at the time of the split then so long as they also had brood frames all stages then they should also be raising a new queen. [/QUOTE]
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