PaleoPerson
Field Bee
History of colony that has been a real pain in the A**e!!
1. Wife did and inspection in late June and two days later, a large swarm issued. Caught swarm with marked queen, relocated to new site, buggers absconded. Inspected original colony expecting to find a queen cell that had been missed, but no, they were raising emergency cells.
2. last month, a small swarm issued, landed 6 feet away on fence. No queen cells in original colony.
3. Inspected three days ago no queen cells seen and put Apiguard on. Buggers swarmed today (very small), flew 6 feet to a nearby fence. Marked queen in swarm (can be seen in pic).
All other colonies fine, just these want to swarm all the time, but why do they do it without queen cells being in place first?
1. Wife did and inspection in late June and two days later, a large swarm issued. Caught swarm with marked queen, relocated to new site, buggers absconded. Inspected original colony expecting to find a queen cell that had been missed, but no, they were raising emergency cells.
2. last month, a small swarm issued, landed 6 feet away on fence. No queen cells in original colony.
3. Inspected three days ago no queen cells seen and put Apiguard on. Buggers swarmed today (very small), flew 6 feet to a nearby fence. Marked queen in swarm (can be seen in pic).
All other colonies fine, just these want to swarm all the time, but why do they do it without queen cells being in place first?