07/01/09 – Am I Queenright or Not?
I love learning about bees. And I get to use all kinds of cool bee-terms like ’spotting’ and ‘queenright’. Your hive is deemed ‘queenright’ if you have a good laying queen. Since I’m operating under the suspicion that I have no queen, I checked in with one of the gurus.
I have been in a holding pattern since the weekend, as I spoke with the Worcester County Apiary Inspector, and he thought I might have ’supercedure’ queen that just hasn’t either A) mated or B) started laying yet..
I was hopeful that the State Apiarist was going to come out to visit my hive, but due to weather and/or schedules, that didn’t happen, so I opened the hive late Wednesday afternoon, and confirmed that there was still no evidence of a laying queen.
Thus operation “Get a Queen Tomorrow” was put into action…
