MartinL
Queen Bee
- Joined
- Apr 4, 2011
- Messages
- 2,328
- Reaction score
- 3
- Location
- Warwickshire
- Hive Type
- 14x12
- Number of Hives
- 9
One of my hives is now very large and irritable.
Its a 14 X 12, full of brood which has overflowed into the first super.
The queen superseded last Autumn I think.
Until now they have always been mild mannered and far from aggressive. However, at the weekend my neighbor (building a timber deck about 5m from the hives),was stung, once Saturday and again on Sunday.
I have the offer of a new site but it's only 5-600 meters from my house. My thought was, to split the offending hive into two (14 X 12) nuclei, leave the supers in place (on top of a new brood-box), move the two nuclei to the new location and let nature take its course (perhaps with a little feeding).
Hoping to have one queenright and one queenless nuc in the new site, with the flying bees returning to the new hive and the remaining brood and nurse bees, to be requeened in about 5-7 days.
Not doing this for the honey production, what are your thoughts?
Its a 14 X 12, full of brood which has overflowed into the first super.
The queen superseded last Autumn I think.
Until now they have always been mild mannered and far from aggressive. However, at the weekend my neighbor (building a timber deck about 5m from the hives),was stung, once Saturday and again on Sunday.
I have the offer of a new site but it's only 5-600 meters from my house. My thought was, to split the offending hive into two (14 X 12) nuclei, leave the supers in place (on top of a new brood-box), move the two nuclei to the new location and let nature take its course (perhaps with a little feeding).
Hoping to have one queenright and one queenless nuc in the new site, with the flying bees returning to the new hive and the remaining brood and nurse bees, to be requeened in about 5-7 days.
Not doing this for the honey production, what are your thoughts?