newportbuzz
Field Bee
- Joined
- Aug 11, 2010
- Messages
- 846
- Reaction score
- 1
- Location
- newport co,mayo ireland
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 19 through the winter
hi i recently requeened a farily angry hive which made mince meat of me yesterday. so i had a botched examination. all i really need to find out is if the new queen has been accepted and is laying. i have seen some small amounts of pollen coming in and rember reading somewhere that that means there is brood. i am sure there was only one frame of capped brood in the hive when i added the queen
i can go in by moving hive and wraping up well but it will be fairly distructive in the way of suacide bees. as i took over 100 stings to the gloves yday. they are slightly better temper than before if that adds to the pile of evedince i managed to get the queen release cage out which was empty but thats as far as i got before it started to get silly. so i closed up and walked away.
i can go in by moving hive and wraping up well but it will be fairly distructive in the way of suacide bees. as i took over 100 stings to the gloves yday. they are slightly better temper than before if that adds to the pile of evedince i managed to get the queen release cage out which was empty but thats as far as i got before it started to get silly. so i closed up and walked away.