SteeveeTee
New Bee
- Joined
- Jun 7, 2013
- Messages
- 40
- Reaction score
- 0
- Location
- Sheffield
- Hive Type
- WBC
- Number of Hives
- 1.5
The scenario.
Beekeeper performs an AS, placing nurse bees and queen cell and BIAS with some foragers in a new hive (6 frames in all), which he places in another garden less than 3 miles away, but with grass, sticks etc to block entrance in the (improbable?!) hope that any foragers re-orientate.
Original hive with queen, filled with foundation and rest of the brood, left in original site. This discovered to be queenless, (no eggs) after four days, with queen cells, so assumption made that queen was squashed. Two queen cells left to be sealed so 3 cells for the two hives, just in case.
9 days after the AS, old queen found in the moved, new hive! (don't ask)
Q1. What effect will leaving the old queen with lots of nurse bees rather than foragers have on the growth of the colony and the honey crop?
Q2. What effect does leaving the queen cell with the foragers on the original site have on colony growth and honey crop?
Q3. Could one new queen be placed in a 3 frame nuc, the other left in the original hive, to enable a double brood/snelgrove board be put on the original hive and get a stronger colony during July/August?
I WASN'T TOO PROUD TO POST THIS!
Beekeeper performs an AS, placing nurse bees and queen cell and BIAS with some foragers in a new hive (6 frames in all), which he places in another garden less than 3 miles away, but with grass, sticks etc to block entrance in the (improbable?!) hope that any foragers re-orientate.
Original hive with queen, filled with foundation and rest of the brood, left in original site. This discovered to be queenless, (no eggs) after four days, with queen cells, so assumption made that queen was squashed. Two queen cells left to be sealed so 3 cells for the two hives, just in case.
9 days after the AS, old queen found in the moved, new hive! (don't ask)
Q1. What effect will leaving the old queen with lots of nurse bees rather than foragers have on the growth of the colony and the honey crop?
Q2. What effect does leaving the queen cell with the foragers on the original site have on colony growth and honey crop?
Q3. Could one new queen be placed in a 3 frame nuc, the other left in the original hive, to enable a double brood/snelgrove board be put on the original hive and get a stronger colony during July/August?
I WASN'T TOO PROUD TO POST THIS!