fast_muchly
New Bee
- Joined
- Jan 2, 2013
- Messages
- 58
- Reaction score
- 4
- Location
- nottinghamshire
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 4
Hi
Caught quite a decent sized swarm last night and its in a 5 frame nuc box , 1 frame taken with honey .Its quite big for the box but o.k . I have put it on top of an empty hive that I want to move it into that has used brood comb in ( ALL HEALTHY ) .
Would you now leave them for a week to build comb and settle in as not to get them to fly off or would you tonight after work move them straight into a nice big hive that's waiting for them . There is a possibility they might move themselves but the nuc is straight on top of the hive roof so its in the same spot .
Thx Alan
Caught quite a decent sized swarm last night and its in a 5 frame nuc box , 1 frame taken with honey .Its quite big for the box but o.k . I have put it on top of an empty hive that I want to move it into that has used brood comb in ( ALL HEALTHY ) .
Would you now leave them for a week to build comb and settle in as not to get them to fly off or would you tonight after work move them straight into a nice big hive that's waiting for them . There is a possibility they might move themselves but the nuc is straight on top of the hive roof so its in the same spot .
Thx Alan