Thought you might like an update on that colony where no queen , eggs or queen cells were found Remember Lynfa said it was queen less and I was rather skeptical, well we were both right!!!
I looked at the colony today again and they were not aggressive (as they would be if no queen) but they had done nothing with the frame of eggs,then half way looking through them it occurred to me that maybe she was above the excluder and happily laying up in the supers, Sure enough the centre frames were covered in sealed brood and I found her, so she is now back down where she should be
So all is well.
Ann

Excellent news Ann – I can’t remember why we didn’t look in the supers! And I did think they were very calm for a queenless colony.

I’m glad it’s a good outcome

Lynfa