Queen-less Split (030) started on March 7, mother colony (28-29) has finally emerged. We will check back in 2 week for eggs. Mating flights may be delayed by a 2 day low temperature weather pattern that is starting 4 days from now. This queen was delayed by approximately 8 days from the normal expected queen rearing calendar. The delay was mostly observed in the time to begin the queen cell. Also may have been a 1-2 day delay in the queen gestational cycle while in the capped queen cell stage. We will see how the other 2 splits emerge which were created with a one week separation each.
