new swarm - location

[beesleybees]

Hi guys,

had a call from a neww beek who had lost a swarm and didnt have any spare kit to catch it.

after an hour, they are all safely in a nuc.

It was a good size swarm and wasnt sure if it was a prime swarm or cast. After some more questions it turns out its a cast. I assume this will have a virgin queen with it

Im now debating where to put this nuc. Should i put it at my aipary so that she has access to drones from my other hives or is it ok to keep this one at home, so I can watch the commings and goings of the bees? I just dont know if keeping them in my garden will give the queen a less likely chance of mating? what do you think?

 

[biglongdarren]

if it was me i would give it back to the person who lost it.

Darren

 

[MuswellMetro]

Your queen would normally fly between 0.75 miles to 1.5 miles to a drone congragation area....unless you are in the middle of Dartmoor, i suspect it would not matter were the Nuc is

 

[beesleybees]

if it was me i would give it back to the person who lost it.

Darren

I didnt know this at the time but this is the secound cast she has lost from the hive, hence the reason she has no more equipment to house them.

Your queen would normally fly between 0.75 miles to 1.5 miles to a drone congragation area....unless you are in the middle of Dartmoor, i suspect it would not matter were the Nuc is

thanks for the info, didnt know they have a drone congregation area. I thought that if there were other hives in the same area, she would mate with drones from these.

ive just thought of a question, what stops a queen mating with her 'uncle'?

 

[Arfermo]

Or brother? Nothing.