I am thinking that what he means by this, Phillip, is that he saw queen cups when he did the cutout, but none were charged with larvae. You didn't see any full-sized queen cells at any point, did you animal?
Yes sir. That is exactly what I meant ... and no haven't seen any full queen cells. Only ones I saw were empty and at the time of cut-out.
They are no longer in there because I cut them away when I condensed the hive to the nuc.
No .. don't have a marked queen. I saw the queen a little too late and the vacuum got her. Then, I bumbled things with the collection box(for the vac) ..and released a bunch of them ... Set the hive I built near the cut-out hive and the bees were scavenging honey from the cut-out area, guiding the escapees into my hive, and all going into my hive at night. I was all cocky at that point ..saying the bees were my employees finishing up the clean-up ... and then, dipwad poisoned them... I condensed them into the "nuc" pictured (that I had built as a trap). cut-out on May 4th. Poisoning was 7th or 8th (I think.)
I had originally just wired big pieces of brood comb (anything that actually had babies of some sort) to frames and those frames went into the 10 frame deep box in the same order as they had originally been in the cut-out hive (the piece of comb closest to the entrance in the cut-out nest became the one closest to the entrance in my hive .. and so on .. preserved order, which way they faced, and top-bottom) When I condensed them, I saved as much brood comb as possible by cutting out empty comb on 4 frames and jigsawing in pieces from other frames that had baby-bees ... and it ended up with 4 completely filled frames of brood (except for about 3 square inches on one frame). On the #5 frame , I just wired in a piece of honeycomb.
so
Until I do the change-over to yet another hive ... and examine things closely with new knowledge you guys have given me ... I don't know the queen situation. .. but I have the testors paint and a plunger&screen thingie ready for that.(fingers crossed)
the gap.. only about 1/16" or less .. a little wad of propolis holding it up at the corner ... maybe it just confused them?
and yes, the shallow box is 5 7/8"
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