{"id":10436,"date":"2012-06-18T13:09:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T12:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10436"},"modified":"2012-06-18T13:09:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T12:09:01","slug":"a-new-queen-has-risen-what-shall-we-call-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/06\/a-new-queen-has-risen-what-shall-we-call-her\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Queen has Risen &#8211; What shall we call her?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things have been a little fraught on the bee-keeping front. The weather has been terrible for the bees. We seem to get one or two days where they can get out and fly, followed by 5-6 days of winds and rain that keeps them shut up in their hives. There just hasn&#8217;t been enough time for them to build up any stores and what little they have they use up whilst the wind and rain lashes down outside.<\/p>\n<p>Quite a few people have been suffering with colonies starving and been having to feed even at this time of year. We&#8217;ve managed to <a title=\"The Swarm that Got Away\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/the-swarm-that-got-away\/\">lose a swarm<\/a> and have had a few colonies that were in the throes of re-queening.<\/p>\n<p>Todays inspection at our home apiary was fairly reassuring\u00a0though.<\/p>\n<h1>Clettwr<\/h1>\n<p>This is the hive that we have lost a swarm from and there has been no sign of a queen or any eggs for a while. Last week I moved a frame with some eggs on it from another hive into this one in the hope that they could raise a queen from the eggs. It was of course possible that there was a virgin queen in the already but she hadn&#8217;t mated or hadn&#8217;t started laying. If that was the case I was hoping that the intervention and addition of some eggs wouldn&#8217;t cause any problems.<\/p>\n<p>Things are still a little unresolved in this hive. Today there was still no sign of a queen and no eggs, but they had created a few queen cups albeit fairly poor looking\u00a0affairs. Fingers crossed that they will raise a new queen yet.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side they have quite a bit in the way of stores, but I guess that isn;t surprising as they don&#8217;t have any brood to feed it to.<\/p>\n<h1>Leri<\/h1>\n<p>All looks good here, small amounts of stores, plenty of egss, plenty of larvae at all stages and a happy queen. This hive has been fairly well behaved so far this year. No doubt that will all change but so far so good.<\/p>\n<h1>Hive 5<\/h1>\n<p>I know, it&#8217;s not a very original name for a hive but it contains a colony produced from the parent half of an artificial swarm from Clettwr. We performed the <a title=\"A Busy Beekeeping Day - Artificial Swarms\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/a-busy-beekeeping-day-artificial-swarms\/\">artificial swarm<\/a> on May 12th and have been waiting for the colony to re-queen ever since. FInally they have done so, today I saw a lovely looking, fat, healthy queen, loads of nice healthy looking eggs and a few very young larvae. A new queen has risen&#8230; What shall we call her?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things have been a little fraught on the bee-keeping front. The weather has been terrible for the bees. We seem to get one or two days where they can get out and fly, followed by 5-6 days of winds and rain that keeps them shut up in their hives. 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