HeronsReach
New Bee
- Joined
- Feb 6, 2010
- Messages
- 15
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- Location
- cumbria
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 10
Whilst checking my hives sat 12th may I found two hives with sealed queen cells and both still had queens in (probably bad weather kept them in?) so I carried out a hive split and took the queen cell brood box to the side removed the queen and put her back onto the original site with two frames of brood with no queen cells. Sunday 20th I had a swarm appear on a post near the apary. Managed to collect. went to check which hive it came form only find that both hive i'd split had swarmed (no queens in either) , so I put them swarm back into one of the hives. Checked last night and no queen to be found (swarmed again in my absence!) I'm after some theorys on why even after swarm prevention they still need to swarm?