reading this was very helpful,, wish I would have read this a week ago
,, had 3 splits.. One I seen the Queen, the other 2 did not see a queen but did see 2,3,7 eggs to a cell. This went on for about two weeks so I decided to consolidate one of these boxes with the box that had a queen.. Went back to the box a week after merging and did could not find the queen that was there a week ago. I left the 3 split alone.
Now I wonder if there was something there and I just missed it and it killed my original queen..
This passed weekend I decided to feed and then leave alone for a least a week or two.. . Your thoughts Please