beesrus
New Bee
- Joined
- Nov 17, 2009
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- Location
- Stockport
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 2 Main, 3 Nucs
I recently created a nuc/split from a strong hive without a laying queen in, i just took brood, is this referred to as a split or nuc?
Also, as there was no queen present they are trying to raise a new queen. After about 9 days i have 5 queen cells but as yet no queen. Should i destroy the queen cells and leave 1-2 present or leave them all and let the queens fight it out? The colony is not strong at all and i'm raising the new queen for resilience only as i believe one of my other hives maybe queenless.
Any suggestions? my overall plan is to recombine this colony with another hive i lost a swarm from earlier this year.
thus transferring bees from hive 2 (strong) to hive 1 (weak)
Thanks
Also, as there was no queen present they are trying to raise a new queen. After about 9 days i have 5 queen cells but as yet no queen. Should i destroy the queen cells and leave 1-2 present or leave them all and let the queens fight it out? The colony is not strong at all and i'm raising the new queen for resilience only as i believe one of my other hives maybe queenless.
Any suggestions? my overall plan is to recombine this colony with another hive i lost a swarm from earlier this year.
thus transferring bees from hive 2 (strong) to hive 1 (weak)
Thanks