steve_e
House Bee
- Joined
- Jan 19, 2010
- Messages
- 251
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- Location
- East Sussex
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 3
I'm in trouble I think (or more correctly the bees in my 3rd hive are).
I've just finished my four week api-life var treatment. I have to confess that during this time I didn't go into the brood box - it seemed a miserable enough thing to subject them to the treatment without going through the BB each time I added more strips. (ok, I'm expecting reproof here...).
Today I carried out the first thorough inspection and found quite an active full colony, with loads of stores and pollen, but no sign of Queen, capped or uncapped brood or eggs.
I'm not sure what the best thing to do is here. I'm pretty sure it's going to be too late to find another fertile queen, so should I be thinking of combining this workforce with one of the other colonies? One of them is quite a small colony (with currently two frames of brood and eggs and possibly a little light on food (although they're being fed) and the other one is quite full and happy.
Any suggestions welcome.
Regards, Steve
I've just finished my four week api-life var treatment. I have to confess that during this time I didn't go into the brood box - it seemed a miserable enough thing to subject them to the treatment without going through the BB each time I added more strips. (ok, I'm expecting reproof here...).
Today I carried out the first thorough inspection and found quite an active full colony, with loads of stores and pollen, but no sign of Queen, capped or uncapped brood or eggs.
I'm not sure what the best thing to do is here. I'm pretty sure it's going to be too late to find another fertile queen, so should I be thinking of combining this workforce with one of the other colonies? One of them is quite a small colony (with currently two frames of brood and eggs and possibly a little light on food (although they're being fed) and the other one is quite full and happy.
Any suggestions welcome.
Regards, Steve