sharonh
House Bee
- Joined
- Jul 30, 2013
- Messages
- 494
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- Location
- Co Westmeath Ireland
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 5
Where does one begin. I'm new to beekeeping,and only have my hive since Aug last Year, so this Year would really be my first full season.
Everything went great from then until recently.
My Queen was marked and clipped and colony expanded great. I inspected the hive once a week. A few weeks ago, July 17th to be exact, did my normal inspection, this was brood and a half, a lot of bees present, found several sealed and unsealed queen cells but no queen, so annoyed that i could have missed these the week before, but hive so full of bees that not surprised i did.
All i could do was re examine the following day to make sure that the queen was definitely gone and no sign of her.
This is what i did then, and do not know whether i was right or wrong.
I brought down a new hive, and i took a frame with a sealed queen sell, and open charged queen cell, which were both on the face of a brood frame. I put this frame and a second frame with food and sealed brood into the new hive. I moved the original hive a meter to the right with entrance facing different direction and new hive in original hives position, i did this July 18th. the old hive now moved, i left just one sealed Queen cell and empty cups. I removed the 2 supers and put them on the new hive as the flying bees would all go to old position now being new hive. Was this the right thing to do?
Everything went great from then until recently.
My Queen was marked and clipped and colony expanded great. I inspected the hive once a week. A few weeks ago, July 17th to be exact, did my normal inspection, this was brood and a half, a lot of bees present, found several sealed and unsealed queen cells but no queen, so annoyed that i could have missed these the week before, but hive so full of bees that not surprised i did.
All i could do was re examine the following day to make sure that the queen was definitely gone and no sign of her.
This is what i did then, and do not know whether i was right or wrong.
I brought down a new hive, and i took a frame with a sealed queen sell, and open charged queen cell, which were both on the face of a brood frame. I put this frame and a second frame with food and sealed brood into the new hive. I moved the original hive a meter to the right with entrance facing different direction and new hive in original hives position, i did this July 18th. the old hive now moved, i left just one sealed Queen cell and empty cups. I removed the 2 supers and put them on the new hive as the flying bees would all go to old position now being new hive. Was this the right thing to do?