Beeconfused
New Bee
- Joined
- Jun 8, 2020
- Messages
- 24
- Reaction score
- 3
- Location
- Droitwich
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 3
I collected a big swarm in a six frame polystyrene Nuc box 12 days ago. The frames were new with new foundation.
I placed the Nuc in my garden and fed the bees with syrup to help them draw out the comb.
They took all the syrup in two days so I topped it up again but then I went on holiday for a week.
I came home yesterday and inspected the Nuc expecting to see the Queen and some drawn comb with eggs. What I found was six frames of honey, almost all of it has been capped. There were loads of worker bees but no sign of a queen or any brood at all and they had built comb right up into the feeder.
I transferred the frames out of the Nuc box into a National hive and filled it with five more frames of new foundation.
Please, can anyone suggest what is going on?
I placed the Nuc in my garden and fed the bees with syrup to help them draw out the comb.
They took all the syrup in two days so I topped it up again but then I went on holiday for a week.
I came home yesterday and inspected the Nuc expecting to see the Queen and some drawn comb with eggs. What I found was six frames of honey, almost all of it has been capped. There were loads of worker bees but no sign of a queen or any brood at all and they had built comb right up into the feeder.
I transferred the frames out of the Nuc box into a National hive and filled it with five more frames of new foundation.
Please, can anyone suggest what is going on?