bluesman
New Bee
- Joined
- Jul 18, 2011
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- Location
- south wales
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 2
hi folks been stressed out today looking at so many ideas of doing a AS !
i have nasty bees and cant hang about when examining them therefore still finding it hard to spot the queen!
so when doing the AS i used a technique that would help me without having to hunt for the queen .....
i found a good Q Cell in the BB with larvae and put it in a nuc with a frame of stores and brood (no queen) -shook two frames of bees in- put nuc where the original hive was and put old hive in a different place.
was this suicidal ? or will it work ?
in the old hive ive noticed sealed cells(but bees dont seemed to of swarmed) do i get rid of these cells?
help
i have nasty bees and cant hang about when examining them therefore still finding it hard to spot the queen!
so when doing the AS i used a technique that would help me without having to hunt for the queen .....
i found a good Q Cell in the BB with larvae and put it in a nuc with a frame of stores and brood (no queen) -shook two frames of bees in- put nuc where the original hive was and put old hive in a different place.
was this suicidal ? or will it work ?
in the old hive ive noticed sealed cells(but bees dont seemed to of swarmed) do i get rid of these cells?
help