Mymwood
New Bee
- Joined
- Apr 24, 2011
- Messages
- 52
- Reaction score
- 4
- Location
- Gwent
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 3
Went to help a friend open up his hives today. Hadnt been opened for just over two weeks as hive two was aggresive and gave him several stings, he only having had a t shirt under his suit.
Hive 2 today was quiet and a lot more friendly, with 1.5 brood, about 4 frames of sealed brood in the b/box and some store but not a lot. In the linked super there was no brood apart from on one frame where it was nearly half full both sides with drone brood!
There were a few empty queen cells in the (lower) brood box. The frame showing the drone brood was an unwired one but not drone foundation.
Question is... why so much drone brood appearing one one frame in two weeks?
Hive 2 today was quiet and a lot more friendly, with 1.5 brood, about 4 frames of sealed brood in the b/box and some store but not a lot. In the linked super there was no brood apart from on one frame where it was nearly half full both sides with drone brood!
There were a few empty queen cells in the (lower) brood box. The frame showing the drone brood was an unwired one but not drone foundation.
Question is... why so much drone brood appearing one one frame in two weeks?