RoseCottage
Field Bee
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- Location
- Near Andover, UK
- Hive Type
- WBC
- Number of Hives
- From 5 to 2 and hopefully a better year
Or how long is a piece of string?
So I did not see my queen at the last couple of inspections but did find several capped queen cells.
Logically she may well have gone...couldn't see eggs either due to lighting conditions.
However the colony is huge and still really busy, as though they were all still living at home.
So after a colony swarms what amount are left behind? Do all the flying bees leave? if so I still have lots of these,
All comments welcome,
Sam
So I did not see my queen at the last couple of inspections but did find several capped queen cells.
Logically she may well have gone...couldn't see eggs either due to lighting conditions.
However the colony is huge and still really busy, as though they were all still living at home.
So after a colony swarms what amount are left behind? Do all the flying bees leave? if so I still have lots of these,
All comments welcome,
Sam
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