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Bryanthebee
New Bee
- Joined
- Oct 1, 2010
- Messages
- 80
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- Location
- Rhondda, S Wales
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 2
well folks what a year, requeened both hives, one queen killed out right the other superceded, so placed old queen back in queenless hive she was killed also, tried cage introdution and nuc introduction both failed this hive is now doomed, dont want to combine just in case we end up back to square one.
second hive superceded but queen unmated, we had a queen from a friend at the time when the new queen hatched so we killed her, placed a new mated queen in and made sure there was no queen cells left in there by shacking out infront off the hive.
then placed the queen cage in and the bees returned back to the hive to find a queen there, went very well now she is laying well for the winter.
we have a nuc to start the new year with for a second hive. also plane to take nuc`s to a different area to mate better queens next year fingers crossed.
I red that a new mated queen is sometimes superceded because she is not laying up to speed like the old queen, i believe this happen to us when we introduced the first new queen when we took out this prolific nasty laying queen.
second hive superceded but queen unmated, we had a queen from a friend at the time when the new queen hatched so we killed her, placed a new mated queen in and made sure there was no queen cells left in there by shacking out infront off the hive.
then placed the queen cage in and the bees returned back to the hive to find a queen there, went very well now she is laying well for the winter.
we have a nuc to start the new year with for a second hive. also plane to take nuc`s to a different area to mate better queens next year fingers crossed.
I red that a new mated queen is sometimes superceded because she is not laying up to speed like the old queen, i believe this happen to us when we introduced the first new queen when we took out this prolific nasty laying queen.
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