When the hive is getting ready to swarm, the queen lays eggs into the queen cups. ... Therefore, the workers will stop feeding her before the anticipated swarm date and the queen will stop laying eggs.

How long before swarming does a queen stop laying?

NW IN Beekeeper

Books will tell you that it tapers from the day she lays in the queen cell up until about 4 days before the new queen emerges (or another way about 2 days before the old queen takes wing).

Why has my queen stopped laying?

Sometimes queens stop laying eggs after several days, and no queen cells are produced from the eggs and larvae in the hive. ... Once a queen is well-established in a hive, we expect her to remain there for a year or more. Reports of older queens are common, some as old as five years.