Help please!

[Rover Girl]

Would appreciate any advice on today's challenges! OH has successfully trapped a cast from my hive and has it in a box upside down on the lawn. When can he close it up - it's propped up a bit at the moment? Do we have to wait till this evening to hive it - if it stays!!
Thank you all!

 

[freethorpe bees]

Hi - you could try hiving it now if you are sure the queen is in there. Or put in a nuc box if it is a cast swarm.

 

[drstitson]

as soon as the majority of the flyers (plus HM) are in the box.

 

[Luminos]

I caught a swarm mid-day once, and when I went to hive it in the evening it'd gorn...

 

[enrico]

If it is card board box then I would transfer it into a nuc or a hive on the same spot. Move it this evening. If it is a wooden box leave it till this evening and then knock it into a hive where you want it. There will be a small amount of wild comb already, dispose of that.
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[oliver90owner]

Enrico is on the button.

The post seems to indicate the bees could be on the ground. Chucking a handful into the entrance of the adjacent nuc should see them walking in (with a small sheet of something placed to help them) but casts are renowned for absconding....

 

[itma]

... casts are renowned for absconding....

You could steal a frame of brood from your hive for the nuc or whatever you hive them in. Brood can help to anchor them.
But don't feed until they have settled properly - at least a couple of days. You don't want to be refuelling them for the next leg of their prospective journey...

 

[Rover Girl]

Swarm hived this evening - thanks to all who helped!