I caught these queen in late july and left them in a warm place for a week and a half because we went to france
july O9
when we got back all three queens had around 1O cocoons and larvea no food was fed to them before!! Oh and they were in test tubes with a water resevoir. And were in there for another week and half before france
july O9
Than the workers came pouring out through the rest of the summer and they had fresh honey every day and that meant the queen was laying eggs all the time so they manedged to get two healthy batches of eggs hatched by the end of the summer !!
3rd november O9
now in hibernation in a massive y-tong setup they are about 25-3O workers!!!yay. Me and my friend to day nocked together three y-tong nests all attached by tubes!!!
will try to get pics
if someone could help me and tell me how to resize the pics i can produce almost hi defenition pics so please give some idears
just now i tried to resize one and it worked but only on picture manadger i saved and all that happebd was it went back to the old size
5th november O9
all i well and i can't wait for spring!