Do224
Drone Bee
Found some charged queen cells (two capped!) in my biggest double brood hive today. This is the hive I mentioned in another thread that I think has found some OSR. They were bursting with bees and lots of nectar, with some capped honey. They are the calmest bees I’ve known so I’m very keen not to lose them!
Somehow, after three sweeps of both boxes I managed to find my very skinny (slimmed down?) unmarked queen. I put her in a nuc with a full frame of stores, a frame of pollen, a frame of open brood (I think ideally this should have been capped?) and two frames of foundation. I shook in another two and a half frames of bees. I put the nuc a couple of metres away from the original hive.
Left one charged open cell in original hive. Shook off bees on all frames and hopefully destroyed all the rest.
Firstly, have I done ok or made some mistakes?
Secondly, quite a few bees are now hanging out on the front of the nuc and also the original hive. Will they sort themselves out or should I do anything? Original hive is the one on the left and the nuc is obviously over on the right…
Somehow, after three sweeps of both boxes I managed to find my very skinny (slimmed down?) unmarked queen. I put her in a nuc with a full frame of stores, a frame of pollen, a frame of open brood (I think ideally this should have been capped?) and two frames of foundation. I shook in another two and a half frames of bees. I put the nuc a couple of metres away from the original hive.
Left one charged open cell in original hive. Shook off bees on all frames and hopefully destroyed all the rest.
Firstly, have I done ok or made some mistakes?
Secondly, quite a few bees are now hanging out on the front of the nuc and also the original hive. Will they sort themselves out or should I do anything? Original hive is the one on the left and the nuc is obviously over on the right…