This colony was purchased as a 5 frame Nuc in late April this year and is the first bee hive I have ever owned. Lots of learning going on!
On July 2, I split the hive because it had become pretty defensive - bees following me 50 yd and stinging both my husband and myself when we were observing from a good distance away. I bought two Caucasian queens. One for the split, and one for this hive. The split accepted the new queen, but this one - the original colony - did not.
On the day I introduced the new queen (in her queen cage), I pinched the old one. I should have pinched the queen a few days before, but shipping being what it is, I didn't want to be without a queen. Now, of course, I realize that allowing the colony to be queenless for a couple of days would have perhaps helped them to accept the new queen (but then again, perhaps not). Instead, they built about 15 supersedure cells and killed my new Caucasian. I have a new queen coming this week so have to decide whether to split and use her in the new split, OR, put her in a larger cage pressed into a brood frame.
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