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Well no harm done; well done catching them in time.
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guess who's has a hive of bees that are making swarm cells due to lack of space 
I forgot to bruise the ivy stores (four frames of 16x10) then they found OSR pollen and went whoooomph brood brood brood then QCs
I forgot to bruise the ivy stores (four frames of 16x10) then they found OSR pollen and went whoooomph brood brood brood then QCs
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done the gazebo and the fishing umbrella tricks.... note you will get a lot of bees hanging from the underside of either.
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Starting to get nervous now - will be returning to my home this weekend to see what my bees have been up to in my absence. I hope (fingers and toes crossed) that my lovely green queen has not swarmed. We are on the edge of a village with lots of unused barns and chimneys in surrounding properties, so I'd hate for one of my colonies to become a 'nuisance'.
A couple of questions which have been rattling around my head:
I have a feeling (I'm having recurrent flashbacks
) that in my haste to perform the manoever I may have missed a queen cell (on the frame rather than on the base) of one of the frames I transferred to my new brood box (without the queen)....but this can only be max 14 days old by the time I do my checks this weekend. Would this cause the plan to fail?
Secondly, assuming my question above does not cause the whole plan to fail & trying to think ahead to what I will do this weekend - with the Snelgrove manoever, Wally Shaw's pamphlet states that after 9-10days I should tear down all emergency queen cells in the new brood box and then find the queen & move her to the new brood. Is the 9-10 days important or can this part be done after 6-7 days which is the time spacing I have to complete this part?
Obviously I will check the new brood box first- If I find signs that I have a queen already in the box (opened queen cell), then I will not move my green queen to the new box.
A couple of questions which have been rattling around my head:
I have a feeling (I'm having recurrent flashbacks
) that in my haste to perform the manoever I may have missed a queen cell (on the frame rather than on the base) of one of the frames I transferred to my new brood box (without the queen)....but this can only be max 14 days old by the time I do my checks this weekend. Would this cause the plan to fail?Secondly, assuming my question above does not cause the whole plan to fail & trying to think ahead to what I will do this weekend - with the Snelgrove manoever, Wally Shaw's pamphlet states that after 9-10days I should tear down all emergency queen cells in the new brood box and then find the queen & move her to the new brood. Is the 9-10 days important or can this part be done after 6-7 days which is the time spacing I have to complete this part?
Obviously I will check the new brood box first- If I find signs that I have a queen already in the box (opened queen cell), then I will not move my green queen to the new box.
