cstroud
New Bee
Hi,
think i've worked out why one of my strong colonies (well they were a strong colony about a month ago) hav'nt been expanding and hav'nt been filling their super- oh and why they've been a bit foul tempered as well.
As I said in a previous post to the forum- the hives got knocked over by youths some time ago, I put them back together and they hav'nt been vandalised since. I think this was what started the robbing (the hive was literally knocked over and the frames exposed). They were bad tempered when I put the hives back upright, but I put that down purely to being shaken up.
I've decided to swap that hive round with the one which I think is doing the robbing, and we'll see what happens. This is the method suggested by Ted Hooper.
Chris
think i've worked out why one of my strong colonies (well they were a strong colony about a month ago) hav'nt been expanding and hav'nt been filling their super- oh and why they've been a bit foul tempered as well.
As I said in a previous post to the forum- the hives got knocked over by youths some time ago, I put them back together and they hav'nt been vandalised since. I think this was what started the robbing (the hive was literally knocked over and the frames exposed). They were bad tempered when I put the hives back upright, but I put that down purely to being shaken up.
I've decided to swap that hive round with the one which I think is doing the robbing, and we'll see what happens. This is the method suggested by Ted Hooper.
Chris
