BarshamAndy
New Bee
I did a demeree a few weeks ago on one of my hive as they were starting to produce swarm cells.
All went well until 3 days ago when a deer(?) knocked over the hive. We have several running around the garden (Though it may have been my dog chasing a deer!)
Anyway the upshot is at about 11.30 in the morning 3 days ago I found the damn thing laying on the floor split open and being robbed to bits...It was mayhem, much worse than any swarm I've seen with fighting and heck of a racket!
I put it back together but without a queen excluder as I had no idea where she was. National brood box at bottom, Super (now half eaten), Super *again nearly all robbed) , then the original initial brood box back on top.
I checked them today as I just had a 3Km EFB warning from the NBU.
No problem with that but there's so many bees I can't find the queen and .... Now shes laying in the top box not the bottom where she was before ! I nearly put the top box on the bottom underneath the 2nd brood box but didn't want to mess them about too much as they are probably still traumatised from Wednesday!
Any thoughts - or shall I just leave them to it? (No sign of swarm cells).
All went well until 3 days ago when a deer(?) knocked over the hive. We have several running around the garden (Though it may have been my dog chasing a deer!)
Anyway the upshot is at about 11.30 in the morning 3 days ago I found the damn thing laying on the floor split open and being robbed to bits...It was mayhem, much worse than any swarm I've seen with fighting and heck of a racket!
I put it back together but without a queen excluder as I had no idea where she was. National brood box at bottom, Super (now half eaten), Super *again nearly all robbed) , then the original initial brood box back on top.
I checked them today as I just had a 3Km EFB warning from the NBU.
No problem with that but there's so many bees I can't find the queen and .... Now shes laying in the top box not the bottom where she was before ! I nearly put the top box on the bottom underneath the 2nd brood box but didn't want to mess them about too much as they are probably still traumatised from Wednesday!
Any thoughts - or shall I just leave them to it? (No sign of swarm cells).