- Joined
- Aug 27, 2020
- Messages
- 135
- Reaction score
- 178
- Location
- Leighton Shropshire
- Hive Type
- 14x12
- Number of Hives
- 8 must stop now.....
A while back I had a spare Queen cell from a swarm preventing split, two cells on one frame.
Rather than waste it. I cut it out, and put it in a mini mating apidea thingy, together with a couple of cups of bees, and some fondant They drew out around the cell, but not a lot more. Left them to it, just checking through the see through cover really.
Yesterday I could see a small patch of sealed brood
. They've not drawn anymore comb though, and there's not as many bees obviously as I started with.
Bit lost as to what can I do now at this time of year?
Move into a very dummied down NUC , will they have time to do enough before winter
Leave them where they are for now. And add to a nuc if she looks better than others in the near future, knowing they definitely won't survive as is without help.
And a real outsider that's just occured to me, put the queen and a couple attendants in a cage, transport to my other apiary, and Requeen my angry hive, which hopefully will be queenless later today.
Or am I just over hopeful![Face with rolling eyes :rolling_eyes: 🙄](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png)
Thanks Mark
Rather than waste it. I cut it out, and put it in a mini mating apidea thingy, together with a couple of cups of bees, and some fondant They drew out around the cell, but not a lot more. Left them to it, just checking through the see through cover really.
Yesterday I could see a small patch of sealed brood
![Heart suit :hearts: ♥️](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/2665.png)
Bit lost as to what can I do now at this time of year?
Move into a very dummied down NUC , will they have time to do enough before winter
Leave them where they are for now. And add to a nuc if she looks better than others in the near future, knowing they definitely won't survive as is without help.
And a real outsider that's just occured to me, put the queen and a couple attendants in a cage, transport to my other apiary, and Requeen my angry hive, which hopefully will be queenless later today.
Or am I just over hopeful
![Face with rolling eyes :rolling_eyes: 🙄](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png)
Thanks Mark