Have I made one nuc too strong?

[Beersinthegarden]

Good afternoon,

So I have two nucs made up to which were done to stop further swarming from the hive, which sort of swarmed once with original queen who was found in a very small cluster under the hive, she's in a nuc with only two frames of bees added and looks to be doing fine. The hive was still packed with bees and had many queen cells so I took 3 frames out with a capped queen cell into nuc and left hive with 5 frames of new foundation and two queen cells hoping this was enough to discourage any swarming.

The 3 frame split is rammed with bees and didn't seem to loose many foragers back to the hive had a quick peep inside and they look to be all over the 5 frames and it's packed with bees, this nuc looks to have 30 times the activity and foragers of the other split with original queen and almost as busy as hive.

I don't want anymore swarms because of my location close to houses, gardens and inaccessible farmland, I am presuming now original queen swarmed and has left the hive plus taking 5 frames out of the hive will be enough to stop the hive swarming again.

But what are the chances of a pretty packed nuc split swarming?

Should I leave alone as it's currently in the process of re-queening only left it 1 queen cell but also added frame with eggs on, so should I get in there for a look around and check for more queen cells or is it unlikely?

 

[enrico]

They are not going to swarm if there is only one queen cell to emerge but they clearly need more room so put them in a brood box.
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[Beersinthegarden]

They are not going to swarm if there is only one queen cell to emerge but they clearly need more room so put them in a brood box.
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Hello

Thanks you were right they weren't swarming just a bit too packed in the small nuc.

I checked today and have new eggs laid on two frames so I assume I have a laying queen in there and was successful on her mating flight, but couldn't find the new queen I found it difficult with all the bees and was difficult not to squash them and get frames back in. I couldn't see any brood and seemed there were even more bees in there now all the brood has emerged.

I have another spare 6 frame nuc which is slightly larger than the one they are in, but no more room for another hive at present I would need to make some landscape changes to house another hive, could I possibly split this nuc in 2 or is it too soon?

Edit I think stores are slightly low in the nuc for all those bees.