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House Bee
- Joined
- Mar 26, 2014
- Messages
- 307
- Reaction score
- 1
- Location
- Midlands
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 7
I demaree'd a hive last Saturday, as it was right across the box, and there were multiple queen cells one of which was capped.
The new brood box with queen had a frame of uncapped brood, and a frame of drawn comb, but the rest were foundation.
I checked today to remove queen cells from top box. I had a look in the bottom box expecting them to have started drawing the bottom foundation. They hadn't and were only really on the frame of brood.
How fast would you expect them to pick up. Is the weather slowing them down? In hindsight, should I have not demaree'd?
Is there any way to feed them a light syrup to help them draw comb?
The new brood box with queen had a frame of uncapped brood, and a frame of drawn comb, but the rest were foundation.
I checked today to remove queen cells from top box. I had a look in the bottom box expecting them to have started drawing the bottom foundation. They hadn't and were only really on the frame of brood.
How fast would you expect them to pick up. Is the weather slowing them down? In hindsight, should I have not demaree'd?
Is there any way to feed them a light syrup to help them draw comb?