Eggs were put into this hive on July 30th. If the hive attends to those eggs, drawing out queen cells, capping them and the hive is successful in maintaining them, a new queen should emerge on Day 16 which us August 14th.
It will take her a couple of days to get oriented then a few more days to take her mating flight.
If the weather cooperates, then it's 24 days or nearly a whole month from the time she emerges until the first bees that she lays emerge.
By the middle of September the newbies should be here. I'm calculating about 45 days from egg (potrntial queen) to new eggs.
I've been feeding them a little bit stronger than a 1:1 solution.
To be honest, I don't want to go into the hive until after the 14th of August. That will be next weekend. It's just as well as this is been a relatively rainy weekend.
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