Hazem
New Bee
- Joined
- Jun 3, 2009
- Messages
- 28
- Reaction score
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- Location
- London, uk
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 9
Hi,
I took possession of a double brood colony yesterday. Moved it 25 miles and put in its new place. I knew that it had not been managed or inspected for the last few weeks (may be 3 to 4 weeks). Went about an hour ago and saw lots of bee out flying getting orientated and other flying randomly all over the place near and around the hive.
A quick inspection revealed the following:
- Most of the upper brood is used as store and some started getting capped.
- Few capped brood.
- Fully shaped sealed queen cells (may be 7, possibly more), mainly in the centre frames.
- Bottom brood box contained lot of capped brood and stores.
- Several queen cells (one in particular was at the bottom of one frame fully surrounded be workers).
No eggs, larvae and could see the queen (did look hard)
I assumed that the damaged has been done and they already swarmed with the original queen few days ago and new queens are about to emerge.
Do I need to intervene in any way, or leave them and check again in, say, 10 days time. How to make use of all those queen cells? (I will ask this in more details in another section of the forum).
Thanks,
Hazem
I took possession of a double brood colony yesterday. Moved it 25 miles and put in its new place. I knew that it had not been managed or inspected for the last few weeks (may be 3 to 4 weeks). Went about an hour ago and saw lots of bee out flying getting orientated and other flying randomly all over the place near and around the hive.
A quick inspection revealed the following:
- Most of the upper brood is used as store and some started getting capped.
- Few capped brood.
- Fully shaped sealed queen cells (may be 7, possibly more), mainly in the centre frames.
- Bottom brood box contained lot of capped brood and stores.
- Several queen cells (one in particular was at the bottom of one frame fully surrounded be workers).
No eggs, larvae and could see the queen (did look hard)
I assumed that the damaged has been done and they already swarmed with the original queen few days ago and new queens are about to emerge.
Do I need to intervene in any way, or leave them and check again in, say, 10 days time. How to make use of all those queen cells? (I will ask this in more details in another section of the forum).
Thanks,
Hazem