Is There A Queen In My Beehive - How to Find Queens - Finding Queens - Is There a Queen in my Hive?

Is there a queen in my beehive? Sometimes this is really difficult question to answer without doing a test.

Is my colony queenless? You need to add a frame of eggs - this is the the best method to test queen status.

Have you split your beehive and the virgin has failed to mate? Have you found a swarm of bees and they arent laying eggs. Have you accidently killed your queen and removed emergency cells? This video will show you how to find the queen in your beehive.

Adding a frame of eggs to a queenless colony gives them the resources needed to make a new queen. If there is no queen in the hive, they will draw emergency cells. If there is a mated OR VIRGIN queen in the hive, they will not use the larvae to create a new queen as they are a queenright colony. Its a really simple test to prove the queen status of a colony.

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