Angry bees

[Dogged]

My hive swarmed this afternoon- swarm safely caught and hived we went to inspect the original hive to assess the queen cell situation. Did our normal approach smoked and lifted off the super. Bit more smoke. Took off the QE - and all hell broke loose. Quickly put the hive together again and departed post haste with stings on my gloves and suit and furious bees bombarding us.

Any idea why we got such a bad reception?

 

[Erichalfbee]

My hive swarmed this afternoon- swarm safely caught and hived we went to inspect the original hive to assess the queen cell situation. Did our normal approach smoked and lifted off the super. Bit more smoke. Took off the QE - and all hell broke loose. Quickly put the hive together again and departed post haste with stings on my gloves and suit and furious bees bombarding us.

Any idea why we got such a bad reception?

Never mind the cranky bees. You could do what Pagden originally described. Put the swarm you caught in its original place. Do it tonight. Tomorrow is a good day. You will end up with all the flyers back with the swarm. A natural swarm not an artificial one.
Then you can deal with a docile brood box. You've got a few days

 

[Gilberdyke John]

My hive swarmed this afternoon- swarm safely caught and hived we went to inspect the original hive to assess the queen cell situation. Did our normal approach smoked and lifted off the super. Bit more smoke. Took off the QE - and all hell broke loose. Quickly put the hive together again and departed post haste with stings on my gloves and suit and furious bees bombarding us.

Any idea why we got such a bad reception?

You sound very generous with the smoke. Excessive use can annoy bees. Also I'd have given the original hive time to settle down following the upheaval of the swarm departure. Lots of other possible factors but tomorrow is another day.
Had there been signs of congestion or other triggers for swarm preparations during your routine inspections?
You might like to follow Erichalfbee advice as to relocating the boxes

 

[For want of a better word]

What was the weather... a usually very passive colony of my yellow bees went crazy last week when a normal inspection ( 2 frame lift out to check all OK) with very little smoke was attempted. Hardly had the first lift of the WBC when they were out pinging and stinging!!
Thunder was on the horizon and there had been a sudden drop of mercury!

Yeghes da

 

[enrico]

They have bad hair days. You did the right thing, well done for closing the hive, I have had phone calls from people too scared to close it up. As stated, leave them to settle, they have just lost half their hive and a queen, another day they may be fine. If after a couple more tries they are still like that then it's a different story
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[Clemcook]

My bees behaviour has changed and been up And down over the past week due to me having to break up the hive and move the Queen etc, before the split they were a bit cranky, then when I did the split the day after they were raging! Now the Queen right hive is more grumpy than the queen less hive, they soon get over it, the day after they took no notice of me again. Also I find they are much happier on sunny days, normally less of them in too.