ruffle
New Bee
- Joined
- May 31, 2011
- Messages
- 23
- Reaction score
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- Location
- Peterborough
- Hive Type
- WBC
- Number of Hives
- 3
SWMBO 'captured' a swarm on the 20th July that had settled on one of our
fence posts;t'was too good an opportunity to miss (I was hundreds of miles
away at the time so couldn't help).
She did a brilliant job of scooping the whole lot into a spare National we had
lying around except that she used a super instead of a brood box (it was
sitting at the top of the pile of hive bits so it's understandable that during
her first swarm wrangling she just picked up the easiest thing).
Having the first quick look at the weekend, they've now drawn around 7 of
the frames from bare foundation and building brace comb below the
super frames. Lots of brood; not so much stores so we're feeding Ambrosia
Liquid Feed.
Should we just leave them in the Super for the Winter or is it worthwhile
adding a brood box and hoping they migrate into that? If we do add a
brood box... should it go above or below the super they're currently using?
TIA.
fence posts;t'was too good an opportunity to miss (I was hundreds of miles
away at the time so couldn't help).
She did a brilliant job of scooping the whole lot into a spare National we had
lying around except that she used a super instead of a brood box (it was
sitting at the top of the pile of hive bits so it's understandable that during
her first swarm wrangling she just picked up the easiest thing).
Having the first quick look at the weekend, they've now drawn around 7 of
the frames from bare foundation and building brace comb below the
super frames. Lots of brood; not so much stores so we're feeding Ambrosia
Liquid Feed.
Should we just leave them in the Super for the Winter or is it worthwhile
adding a brood box and hoping they migrate into that? If we do add a
brood box... should it go above or below the super they're currently using?
TIA.