shudderdun
House Bee
- Joined
- Sep 22, 2010
- Messages
- 222
- Reaction score
- 3
- Location
- North West
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 4
Discovered this growing under one of my hives a couple of days ago but am only in a position to deal with it today, consequently it has grown ! It was originally under the hive shown in the background.
Never had to do this before, thought it through and this is my plan of action :-
Yesterday I moved this hive and stand to one side, put a new stand and floor in its place then transferred the hive over minus the original floor onto this.
I have a new floor and BB ready and have made up some frames minus foundation to strap the drawn cone to.
I am going to first of all place a sheet on the ground and position the new floor and BB on this, take hold of the stand/floor with the bees on and bang it on the ground above the BB, hopefully dropping the bees into the BB, then cut away and strap the what should be near empty cone to the frames and let the loose and flying bees enter the BB, closing any space down in the BB with dummy (block) frame.
Tomorrow I will transfer the bees to a six frames nuc and move it to my out apiary.
Hope this sounds about right, any other thoughts would be appreciated, thanks !
Never had to do this before, thought it through and this is my plan of action :-
Yesterday I moved this hive and stand to one side, put a new stand and floor in its place then transferred the hive over minus the original floor onto this.
I have a new floor and BB ready and have made up some frames minus foundation to strap the drawn cone to.
I am going to first of all place a sheet on the ground and position the new floor and BB on this, take hold of the stand/floor with the bees on and bang it on the ground above the BB, hopefully dropping the bees into the BB, then cut away and strap the what should be near empty cone to the frames and let the loose and flying bees enter the BB, closing any space down in the BB with dummy (block) frame.
Tomorrow I will transfer the bees to a six frames nuc and move it to my out apiary.
Hope this sounds about right, any other thoughts would be appreciated, thanks !