crazy_bull
Field Bee
- Joined
- Jun 25, 2009
- Messages
- 522
- Reaction score
- 1
- Location
- Huntingdon
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 60
Now thats got your attention:
I have finally caught one in the act!!!!
I have an exceptionally vigorous colony that has eggs and brood coming out of all corners, they are a double brood but typical woman, not content with what she has (Tin hat firmly on
) had some how been getting into the supers, last time i thought she must has been on the excluder and simply transfered up into the supers by accident.
However today i look and 2 brood boxes plus 1 super are ramed full of eggs and there she was! Skinny as you like and one of the longest queens i've seen.
I picked her up and put her on the punched queen excluder and she went straight through, so tried a plastic and wire excluder in seperate experiments and with both she walked through as if they weren't there!
Not really alot i can do with her really as she is so prolific but i'll just have to be careful where she is when i take the honey off!
Below are 2 pics of her appologies for the quality they were on my phone camera:
I have finally caught one in the act!!!!
I have an exceptionally vigorous colony that has eggs and brood coming out of all corners, they are a double brood but typical woman, not content with what she has (Tin hat firmly on

However today i look and 2 brood boxes plus 1 super are ramed full of eggs and there she was! Skinny as you like and one of the longest queens i've seen.
I picked her up and put her on the punched queen excluder and she went straight through, so tried a plastic and wire excluder in seperate experiments and with both she walked through as if they weren't there!
Not really alot i can do with her really as she is so prolific but i'll just have to be careful where she is when i take the honey off!
Below are 2 pics of her appologies for the quality they were on my phone camera:

