bellabee
House Bee
- Joined
- Mar 27, 2011
- Messages
- 174
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- Location
- Cambridge Uk
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 1
Hello everyone,
I am new here and very excited to talk to you all about bees and hear any help or advice you have
This is our hive:
Super 1 - nearly full waiting for bees to cap
Super two - added recently - bees found and drawing
QX
Shallow brood 1
Deep brood 2
Our bees went crazy mid spring for all the blossom about and really got to work on super 1 after we put that on in the spring.
We were doing our checks one week and noticed queen cups (Near the bottom on the frames) and supersedure cups in the middle of the frames. This worried us as we didn't want them to swarm after such a good start, we read so much about queen cups and weather to cut them out or leave them. In the end we left them and built another brood box, which contains 5 frames of new wax foundation and we blocked off the other half. We have placed this new brood box here:
Hello everyone,
I am new here and very excited to talk to you all about bees and hear any help or advice you have
This is our hive:
Super 1
Super two
QX
>> New 5 frame brood <<
Shallow brood 1
Deep brood 2
Was this the right thing to do? I guess we are more interested in getting our hive through our first year rather than honey production this year.
So on the inspection and fitting the new brood we checked for:
* Grubs - we saw all sizes on B1 and B2
* Eggs - we only saw a small patch in the shallow brood, but they were defiantly there and at the bottom of the cells
* Queen cups - we saw only two this time, but hopefully fitting the new brood they might give up on this.
* Brood pattern - Looked a little sporadic picture here:
http://img860.imageshack.us/img860/900/bees1.jpg
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/1646/bees2.jpg
* Queen - we are a little new to finding her and have not marked her, but the bees did cluster to a few points when removing the frames.
ANY advice you can give would be great and very much appreciated.
Is it possible the bees replaced the old queen themselves and we had a laying drone?
Finding fresh eggs yesterday is good....? What should we check for next?
Many thanks in advance
I am new here and very excited to talk to you all about bees and hear any help or advice you have
This is our hive:
Super 1 - nearly full waiting for bees to cap
Super two - added recently - bees found and drawing
QX
Shallow brood 1
Deep brood 2
Our bees went crazy mid spring for all the blossom about and really got to work on super 1 after we put that on in the spring.
We were doing our checks one week and noticed queen cups (Near the bottom on the frames) and supersedure cups in the middle of the frames. This worried us as we didn't want them to swarm after such a good start, we read so much about queen cups and weather to cut them out or leave them. In the end we left them and built another brood box, which contains 5 frames of new wax foundation and we blocked off the other half. We have placed this new brood box here:
Hello everyone,
I am new here and very excited to talk to you all about bees and hear any help or advice you have
This is our hive:
Super 1
Super two
QX
>> New 5 frame brood <<
Shallow brood 1
Deep brood 2
Was this the right thing to do? I guess we are more interested in getting our hive through our first year rather than honey production this year.
So on the inspection and fitting the new brood we checked for:
* Grubs - we saw all sizes on B1 and B2
* Eggs - we only saw a small patch in the shallow brood, but they were defiantly there and at the bottom of the cells
* Queen cups - we saw only two this time, but hopefully fitting the new brood they might give up on this.
* Brood pattern - Looked a little sporadic picture here:
http://img860.imageshack.us/img860/900/bees1.jpg
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/1646/bees2.jpg
* Queen - we are a little new to finding her and have not marked her, but the bees did cluster to a few points when removing the frames.
ANY advice you can give would be great and very much appreciated.
Is it possible the bees replaced the old queen themselves and we had a laying drone?
Finding fresh eggs yesterday is good....? What should we check for next?
Many thanks in advance