Event types

• Queen cup appearance
• Queen growth takes 16 days
• Queen mating flights ~ 5 days after birth
• Queen laying ~ 14 days after mating
  • if after 21 days queen is not mated - she won’t be able to lay eggs
• From queen egg to first worker bee hatching = 46 days. So ~20 july is the latest time to have queen change (to reach september)