Queen Marking

[CB008]

What an experience. Today tried to find queen to mark her. Found her running across the frame and saw her fall down because a gust of wind came. I was content with seeing the queen and thought she just went down into the brood box again. I had the hive all closed up when I found her sitting on the grass so I quickly put the press in cage on her and marked her. So then I lifted her up and put her back in the hive using one hand to remove roof and crown board. So hopefully shes ok.


Steve

In my experince you can never be too careful. This weekend as I shook the inspection cover (the cloth you put over to keep the sun out when inspecting etc) and hey presto she fell off that despite having seen her earlier on a frame. On another occasion she fell off the frame on to the inspection cloth hence the reason to always inspect the frame over the hive.