Cyfareddol
New Bee
- Joined
- May 26, 2013
- Messages
- 27
- Reaction score
- 10
- Location
- Nant Conwy Wales
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 6
I have been helping a beekeeper more novice than myself.
He was given a wooden National hive with a small swarm resident and only five frames in total. He put the hive on the roof of a shed where access was difficult and involved a ladder. I asked him to fill the void with frames but he didn’t. There is now a mass of brace comb filling half the box and not a lot happening in the rest.
Is the best solution to combine with another colony with two Queens initially, bearing in mind that it will be difficult to ensure that there’s a Queen left alive? If both queens are killed its now too late to requeeen.
Would the problem be better left until spring and what is the favourite solution?
He was given a wooden National hive with a small swarm resident and only five frames in total. He put the hive on the roof of a shed where access was difficult and involved a ladder. I asked him to fill the void with frames but he didn’t. There is now a mass of brace comb filling half the box and not a lot happening in the rest.
Is the best solution to combine with another colony with two Queens initially, bearing in mind that it will be difficult to ensure that there’s a Queen left alive? If both queens are killed its now too late to requeeen.
Would the problem be better left until spring and what is the favourite solution?