I pulled a queen from a hive with swarm cells, and installed her in a nuc. The origonal hive built up very quickly this spring. And yet, the queen is doing nothing in the nuc I set up for her.
1. We are in honey flow
2. My other queens are laying well.
3. this queen has a patch of brood and eggs a large as my hand, but there is another entire frame of empty polished comb in the nuc, untouched for the last two weeks, as well as two foundationless frames untouched.
4. The population in not building up.
Could she be on her last leg? She is only in her second year, but I lean towards culling her. Is there any reason why not? As a third year beek, I hesitate to blame the queen for my possible mis-management, yet I don't see any reason she shouldn't be building up. No pest, no disease, clean box. She is robbing me of being able to use that nuc for resources, because her colony isn't producing any.