tedandagnes
New Bee
- Joined
- Sep 7, 2010
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- Location
- Yorkshire Dales
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 1
hi there very new beekeeper here & would be very grateful for some advice.
Got Nuc of bees at end of June from thornes was told was this years queen but she was marked with white dot & had a clipped wing, other 5 nucs in the group weren't marked or clipped.
Seemed to be going along swimmingly excellent laying pattern but created a supersedure cell late july so decided to leave them be & let them get on with it
That hatched & a few other cells made so we left them to it again.
Hive swarmed & caught installed in nuc, has continued laying, they are okay.
There were 8 Q cells left in the main hive, we removed 4 into 2 seperate nucs & 1 was grafted onto someone elses hive left the rest in mine.
Hive swarmed again week later, caught & hived, within a week they had pulled & filled at least 5 frames of stores (have been feeding them 2:1 syrup) but no sign of any eggs/brood
So again left them all to it & hope the new queens would get going.
1 nuc failed (robbed we think) still no sign of either queen laying so put a test frame with small amount of brood/lavae (no eggs sadly) into cast swarm hive.
Have just checked that frame and area around the brood has cells with 2/3 eggs on side nr top so i guess laying workers....what to do now
Thanks for ploughing through this far...would be grateful for some advice
Rachelle
Beekeeper for 4mths & hasn't got a clue
Got Nuc of bees at end of June from thornes was told was this years queen but she was marked with white dot & had a clipped wing, other 5 nucs in the group weren't marked or clipped.
Seemed to be going along swimmingly excellent laying pattern but created a supersedure cell late july so decided to leave them be & let them get on with it
That hatched & a few other cells made so we left them to it again.
Hive swarmed & caught installed in nuc, has continued laying, they are okay.
There were 8 Q cells left in the main hive, we removed 4 into 2 seperate nucs & 1 was grafted onto someone elses hive left the rest in mine.
Hive swarmed again week later, caught & hived, within a week they had pulled & filled at least 5 frames of stores (have been feeding them 2:1 syrup) but no sign of any eggs/brood
So again left them all to it & hope the new queens would get going.
1 nuc failed (robbed we think) still no sign of either queen laying so put a test frame with small amount of brood/lavae (no eggs sadly) into cast swarm hive.
Have just checked that frame and area around the brood has cells with 2/3 eggs on side nr top so i guess laying workers....what to do now
Thanks for ploughing through this far...would be grateful for some advice
Rachelle
Beekeeper for 4mths & hasn't got a clue