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my husband looked at a spanish forum while he was home for lunch, and read that putting a section of brood comb in the new hive box might help. he plans to put one in the new box, and then put the swarm back in this afternoon. he also wonders about using pheromones, but in any case we can't get...

as far as queen cells, my husband is learning what he can as fast as he can, but this is a totally new, off-the-cuff venture for us. the beekeeper didn't explain anything about queens or queen cells or anything. we don't even know where they are.

We are in Mexico. A local beekeeper did the hive transfer, and he explained precious little. There is lots of traffic in and out of the old hive, and bees are arriving well covered with pollen. There are lots of fruit trees on our lot, and right now the bees are feeding a lot on fallen pears...

hi all, glad to be here the first time. we had a wild hive on our property moved to a hive box here in mexico the other day. we don't know anything about beekeeping, but we wanted to save the hive, instead of destroy it. and the honey! it was excellent, about 8 litres of it. That got us...