Mersea Bees
New Bee
- Joined
- Jun 3, 2010
- Messages
- 16
- Reaction score
- 0
- Location
- Mersea Island colchester Essex uk
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 1 Brought on Sunday 6th June 2010 & Now Have 9 Hives
I have had my bees for about a month now i brought them as a complete hive they have been working very hard and now have one full capped super on and one drawen out which they are starting to fill.
My queen is marked and clipped on saturday morning i got to my hive to see all my bees leaving the hive they moved about 50ft away from the hive then came back i have been told this is because the queen is clipped and she could not go with the swarm so they came back..
I was then told i must have a queen cell ( which i do fully drawn and sealed) so was told to find my old queen and split the hive putting the old queen in the new hive and put the new hive in the same spot as the old hive..
The only problem is i can not find the old Queen so what do i do now as i have a fully formed queen cell??
Many Thanks Stuart
My queen is marked and clipped on saturday morning i got to my hive to see all my bees leaving the hive they moved about 50ft away from the hive then came back i have been told this is because the queen is clipped and she could not go with the swarm so they came back..
I was then told i must have a queen cell ( which i do fully drawn and sealed) so was told to find my old queen and split the hive putting the old queen in the new hive and put the new hive in the same spot as the old hive..
The only problem is i can not find the old Queen so what do i do now as i have a fully formed queen cell??
Many Thanks Stuart