buckwyns
New Bee
- Joined
- Sep 20, 2011
- Messages
- 38
- Reaction score
- 3
- Location
- Essex
- Hive Type
- 14x12
- Number of Hives
- Quite a few, wife says too many!!
I need some advice please. A week ago one of my colonies swarmed and as I knew where it had come from I treated it like an artificial swarm and rehoused it in a new brood box with full number of frames of foundation and replaced the super on top (this advice from Ted Hooper). The old brood box containing the queen cell was placed to one side as per a/s. I have checked the new brood box today expecting to find that they had drawn frames and there is not one frame that has been worked on.
What should I do now, should I give them some drawn frames in the hope that the queen starts laying. (I should say, they did have stores in the super).
Any help would be very much appreciated.
What should I do now, should I give them some drawn frames in the hope that the queen starts laying. (I should say, they did have stores in the super).
Any help would be very much appreciated.