thebhoy
House Bee
- Joined
- Jul 16, 2009
- Messages
- 332
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- Location
- Sutton, London
- Hive Type
- 14x12
- Number of Hives
- 28
Had several virgin queens and made up some mating hives for them.....first two run in and no probs, everything looked ok and bees accepted them (or appear to have).
Went to run 3rd one in (the biggest and best of the three) and, as bees were trying to get out I thought upon a magnificent stupid idea....put a tiny teeny bit of apiguard at entrance point to keep them back.....it worked. Then tried to run her in, ok, first couple of bees no probs then suddenly another one attacked her, attacker came off worse.....strangely, I thought it was dead as it gave a good impression and put it to the side.( say strangely as 10 mins later it was flying about) Entered her again and again she was attacked and that bee was killed. I thought I would pull her out and try elsewhere but before I could get her she just run down between the frames so am sure they will have killed her now....and so avoidable.
Well stupid is as stupid does....and another lesson learned.....don't do anything to agitate the bees when you need them to be as subdued as possible
Went to run 3rd one in (the biggest and best of the three) and, as bees were trying to get out I thought upon a magnificent stupid idea....put a tiny teeny bit of apiguard at entrance point to keep them back.....it worked. Then tried to run her in, ok, first couple of bees no probs then suddenly another one attacked her, attacker came off worse.....strangely, I thought it was dead as it gave a good impression and put it to the side.( say strangely as 10 mins later it was flying about) Entered her again and again she was attacked and that bee was killed. I thought I would pull her out and try elsewhere but before I could get her she just run down between the frames so am sure they will have killed her now....and so avoidable.
Well stupid is as stupid does....and another lesson learned.....don't do anything to agitate the bees when you need them to be as subdued as possible