thorn
Drone Bee
- Joined
- Sep 11, 2009
- Messages
- 1,466
- Reaction score
- 474
- Location
- An Essex boy stranded in Leeds
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- It varies.
I found queens in two of my hives this morning and marked them both. The first I let back onto a frame in the brood box, and all was well.
The second was from a hive I decided to snelgrove, there being a couple of charged queen cells in the brood box. I prepared a second brood box with new foundation, putting the frame on which I'd found her in the old box into the centre. As soon as I released he she was attacked.
Can a mark on the back make that much difference? Might it be the smell of the still wet marking ink?
The second was from a hive I decided to snelgrove, there being a couple of charged queen cells in the brood box. I prepared a second brood box with new foundation, putting the frame on which I'd found her in the old box into the centre. As soon as I released he she was attacked.
Can a mark on the back make that much difference? Might it be the smell of the still wet marking ink?