steve_e
House Bee
- Joined
- Jan 19, 2010
- Messages
- 251
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- Location
- East Sussex
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 3
Hi -
For personal reasons I haven't been able to open my two hives up this year until today.
One was fine - the other not so much.
I found many Queen cells, three capped, many uncapped. However, I also found the Queen, somewhat to my surprise. I've not encountered this situation before, so although I'm going to read up to see if I've done the right or wrong thing, I'd also appreciate any suggestions/critical analysis.
So I've done the following, in a slight state of panic and while I had my eye on the Queen:
I haven't yet removed any of the QCs in the old colony. I guess I should now go back and remove all of the capped ones, leaving one or two uncapped ones?
For personal reasons I haven't been able to open my two hives up this year until today.
One was fine - the other not so much.
I found many Queen cells, three capped, many uncapped. However, I also found the Queen, somewhat to my surprise. I've not encountered this situation before, so although I'm going to read up to see if I've done the right or wrong thing, I'd also appreciate any suggestions/critical analysis.
So I've done the following, in a slight state of panic and while I had my eye on the Queen:
- Captured her
- Created a new deep brood with empty frames from last year and one of the frames of stores from her original colony (inspected to ensure there were no QCs there)
- Put the new hive in the place of the old one and moved the old one into a new position
- Put a QE UNDER the new brood box, hopefully to stop the Queen taking off anyway.
I haven't yet removed any of the QCs in the old colony. I guess I should now go back and remove all of the capped ones, leaving one or two uncapped ones?