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Timbeez

New Bee
Joined
Jul 1, 2022
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Location
Cheshire
Number of Hives
8
Done split this morning and took to new apiary, checking x3 hives at apiary, one queen less and very few bees, removed all drawn comb as beyond saving, hive two queen right, rammed, queen looks past her best, however whilst checking found new queen on outside of hive, put in queen clip and went to introduce her back in, only for her to be balled and met with aggressive behaviour, trying to kill her, removed her immediately, on checking hive 3 which was a split on the 16th several EQC all sealed, removed all QC and offered new queen in cage with fondant accepted straight way, left for 4 hours ladies eaten into cage and looking after her, the EQC I removed I put into days split not sure whether I did right or wrong, just tried dealing with situation at hand, was I right moving queen and trying to recycle EQC
 

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