I used to keep bees but my Jack Russell hated them so I don't have any kit. I collected a swarm earlier today from a friends garage wall as he was freaking out and they are boxed up (obviously don't know if there is a Queen). What to do?
thanks
Neil
Supersedeure worked and I clearly have a frighteningly fertile new Q in residence.
The only problem is she has found her way in to the supers through the previously Queen proof plastic excluder. Each of the 3 supers now has uncapped brood plus lots of honey.
Would the best thing now be to take...
Thanks for the replies. I have given the swarm away for free and I'll just have to take my chances that all might be well in the hive.
kind regards
Neil
This is my second year - single hive in the garden. I have no kit to do anything with the swarm - it's just in a box. My wife doesn't want any more hives. What are my options? Thanks
South of Leicester got a call from neighbour earlier that our single hive was swarming. I've just collected it waiting for the stragglers to go in. If you want to collect and give me a few quid for the effort (and stings as I stupidly didn't kit up properly) let me know.
I found the mystery Q. Resident Q not seen yesterday but last week had red spot - are these two the same? Marked Q photo is from July 2013 and looked much the same last Sunday when I inspected the hive. Unmarked Q from today (clearly also left wing clipped) . The black bands look wider on...
Thanks everyone. I'd feel happier understanding what's going on if it had been the known marked Queen. I'll rig up something temporary and look again tomorrow.
Thanks. I would have thought the same had I not seen mine last week with the bold red mark she's had since last June (the red in the box in the pic is a bit of card). I handled this mystery Queen earlier and she is totally unmarked but left wing clipped.
Main thing now is what to do with these...
It's now 18:15 and this is what I've got. The mystery Queen is in there somewhere. I don't know how many bees there are but it doesn't look like a full swarm. I don't have anything to put them in so any suggestions what to do with her/them. My only hive about 4 meters away has settled down now.
Having tidied the hive up a week ago and hoping for a swarmless Easter the bees were definitely swarming at 14:45 today. I went straight down and found a few workers and drones clustering on the lawn about 2m from the hive.
I soon realized they were round a Queen but shock and horror it was an...
Thanks. It was tight a few weeks back but 2 supers on since so plenty of room. Resident Queen is wing clipped (she's less than a year old) - should I do anything?