This is a common situation. We made an offshoot with an old queen. The main family was left without a queen and after a while laid queen cells. And this situation is very similar to pre-swarming situation ... There is also a lot of brood in the family and the queen cells are also laid. Everything is very similar. The brood and especially the queen cells require constant intensive heating and despite the excellent work on honey collection, maintaining the temperature regime for rearing of a healthy queen becomes one of the main jobs in the family ... If not the most main one ... After all, the family will die without a healthy queen ...
This situation can be seen if you suddenly decide to get diagnostics using Apivox Smart Monitor in Swarming Control mode ...
Thus,
Swarming Control mode can theoretically be used to monitor the conditions for
rearing of the queens in family-nursery or in an ordinary family in order to
understand how intensively the process of rearing the queens is going and what
are - good of not so good they presumably will be... This mode is differential, and shows what
prevails in work inside the hive - brood care, or works related to honey.
Accordingly, the longer both arrows are in the red zone, the more time the bees
devote to caring for the brood and queen cells.
