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Transferred the wooden nuc colony to a poly nuc today. Will dummy down the black bee hive with kingspan tomorrow

I’ll dummy them down to 6 or 7 frames and hope for the best 🤞

21 days so from day 1 to emerging bees would already be July 30th. Next cycle would be end of August. All is fine and normal IMO, they...

Same as you Steve, I didn’t realise it was a July swarm - if it was earlier in the swarming season you would expect them to be flying...

Most of the swarms I catch around here are dark but this one is particularly so. Quite keen to keep them and see how they get on...

They’re certainly dark!

Fair point. I think around the time they arrived (9th July) I was reading posts where people were saying they were hiving nucs and...

Arrived early July. Even if she started laying on day one it would be end of July before you had new worker bees. Why would you expect...

I know, it’s weird. I vaped them on day 5 after they arrived before they capped any brood. Solid floor so couldn’t see the mite drop...

She was laying soon after arrival so I expected them to grow fast but alas they never did. Gave them a feed when they arrived and a...

May have had a slow start if it superseded an old swarm queen; may have been ******** by a lack of income in August which would...

I would dummy them down with insulation to those frames and assess in spring

if you think they are both viable to get through the winter then don't combine. you never know what spring will bring with queenless hives!

I’d leave them alone; do what I can to get them through the Winter and let them surprise me in the Spring.

I’ve got a colony that’s never really got going. It was a swarm that arrived in a bait hive in early July. I put it in a hive with all...