- Joined
- May 29, 2010
- Messages
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- Location
- Norwich
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 3 National Hives & 1 Observation Hive.(Indoors) & lots of empty boxes..
I have it in mind to build an indoor observation hive.
1. Should I take a frame of capped brood and some bees from one of my hives, and create their own queen?
2. Get some new bees and a queen from somewhere else on the thinking that my bees might not stop in the observation hive but just go back to thier old hive because the entrance will be in the same garden where they came from.
3. or is it too late in the season to start this?
4. Just sit and watch what I have thro the window when it gets too cold to sit outside?
1. Should I take a frame of capped brood and some bees from one of my hives, and create their own queen?
2. Get some new bees and a queen from somewhere else on the thinking that my bees might not stop in the observation hive but just go back to thier old hive because the entrance will be in the same garden where they came from.
3. or is it too late in the season to start this?
4. Just sit and watch what I have thro the window when it gets too cold to sit outside?