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Speaker A and Tomasso search a hive for a green-marked queen from April 2024. They find her on frame 4: a healthy Continental Gold Star Lagustica queen, after checking through frames of honey, pollen, and brood to rule out a supersedure.
Speaker A and Tomasso search a hive for a green-marked queen from April 2024. They find her on frame 4: a healthy Continental Gold Star Lagustica queen, after checking through frames of honey, pollen, and brood to rule out a supersedure.
I'm going to give you the full video here. Tomaso is going into this colony to find the mated queen. She was mated in April 2024, marked green. Before we get there, guess which frame she's on? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. I'm going with frame number 7. Tomaso?
I'm going for, uh, of course, never behind the feeder. No. Sometimes you're unlucky.
Yeah. So frame number 1, no queen. Frame number 2, lots of honey and pollen. I said to Tomaso when we opened this one, I actually think there might be a supersedure going on here. Tommaso said no, it's a young queen, so it's just kind of building up a little bit slower. And there we go, Tommaso is right because that looks like very, very good brood. We'll take a look for some eggs just to make sure, but no cells yet.
This is an old frame, pretty damaged from collapsing in the summertime.
Okay, an old frame there that's melted down in summertime. The bees have repaired it, and as they generally do depending on the time of the year, they repair it with drone brood, which is a bit frustrating. And there we go, that was frame 4.
Ah, Tommaso got it right. There we go, look.
A beautiful Continental Gold Star Lagustica queen on frame 4. Didn't take that long this time.
