Artificial swarm

[snimmo243]

After carrying out an artificial swarm how long should you leave it, after the new queen emerges to check if she is laying?

Steven

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[Jon]

At least 2 weeks from emergence but she could take more than 3.

[snimmo243]

That ties in with what I normally do, I'd read somewhere ten days but I thought that was a bit soon

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[Jon]

Ten days would be pretty much a best case scenario and would mean the queen took her mating flight just 7 or 8 days from emergence.
The queen starts to lay about 2 days after the mating flight.

[snimmo243]

Ten days would be pretty much a best case scenario and would mean the queen took her mating flight just 7 or 8 days from emergence.
The queen starts to lay about 2 days after the mating flight.

So not a rainy cold Scotland scenario then :-)

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[Jon]

There was a spell for about 2 weeks last July we were getting queens laying 8 days from emergence in the apideas.
I remember one night at the queenrearing group we found about 25-30 queens had just started to lay.
The weather was perfect and about 25c.
Rare in Ireland or Scotland.