Beezy
House Bee
Hi there,
I have been really thick and made my first big mistake and was hoping someone could advise me!
A few days ago I harvested one super; I put the second underneath the bb after bruising some of the cappings, so the bees would take it up into the bb - this was divided by the crown board.
Then I put the empty super on top of the bb so the bees could clean it up. The thing is that I forgot to add the QE. Now I've decided that I need to hurry up and get the varroa treatment going, so the best solution seems to be to extract the 1st super myself and feed it to the bees by use of a feeder - then I can take the super off b4 treatment and it won't be contaminated.
So I need to do this asap, but I have no idea where the Q could be thanks to my forgetting the QE. Another issue is that as I have only one CB, I had nothing to put on top of the boxes, so a lot of bees are in the roof, making it more difficult for myself. I guess the only way is to try and quickly go through the bb to ascertain is the Q is in there, then the top super? (I wouldn't have thought she'd be in bottom one).
Presumably if for any reason I accidentally trapped her in the super, she wouldn't be able to go through to bb or could she squeeze through porter bee escape? Would you recommend anything to cover top super whilst the CB is in use?
Any advice much appreciated.
I have been really thick and made my first big mistake and was hoping someone could advise me!
A few days ago I harvested one super; I put the second underneath the bb after bruising some of the cappings, so the bees would take it up into the bb - this was divided by the crown board.
Then I put the empty super on top of the bb so the bees could clean it up. The thing is that I forgot to add the QE. Now I've decided that I need to hurry up and get the varroa treatment going, so the best solution seems to be to extract the 1st super myself and feed it to the bees by use of a feeder - then I can take the super off b4 treatment and it won't be contaminated.
So I need to do this asap, but I have no idea where the Q could be thanks to my forgetting the QE. Another issue is that as I have only one CB, I had nothing to put on top of the boxes, so a lot of bees are in the roof, making it more difficult for myself. I guess the only way is to try and quickly go through the bb to ascertain is the Q is in there, then the top super? (I wouldn't have thought she'd be in bottom one).
Presumably if for any reason I accidentally trapped her in the super, she wouldn't be able to go through to bb or could she squeeze through porter bee escape? Would you recommend anything to cover top super whilst the CB is in use?
Any advice much appreciated.