fullframe45
House Bee
- Joined
- May 13, 2019
- Messages
- 191
- Reaction score
- 41
- Location
- lancashire
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 4 --5.
just checked a DB poly hive with 3 supers on after i did not see any activity on the entrance.While the rest of the hives were all busy.
This hive was inspected 4 days previously and was very busy and going wellThey had room and space in the supers and with my limited knowledge no sighn of swarming. I needed to move it propably 4/5 foot and kept the entrance the same way. Bees not happy but i had to do it for reasons i wont go into now.
On inspection today their numbers were reduced a fair ammount and down to 6 frames in brood box (bottom one )lots of eggs mainly lying down or leaning , quite a lot of lava and five frames of brood some very new and golden in colour.But no sighn of Q cells or Cups anywhere .Or the Q .could my moving the hive disturb them and trigered a swarm .She was not clipped and marked so white so im sure i would have seen her.
Will i just have to wait till they start making another Q and let em get on with it or is there another option. Thank you.
This hive was inspected 4 days previously and was very busy and going wellThey had room and space in the supers and with my limited knowledge no sighn of swarming. I needed to move it propably 4/5 foot and kept the entrance the same way. Bees not happy but i had to do it for reasons i wont go into now.
On inspection today their numbers were reduced a fair ammount and down to 6 frames in brood box (bottom one )lots of eggs mainly lying down or leaning , quite a lot of lava and five frames of brood some very new and golden in colour.But no sighn of Q cells or Cups anywhere .Or the Q .could my moving the hive disturb them and trigered a swarm .She was not clipped and marked so white so im sure i would have seen her.
Will i just have to wait till they start making another Q and let em get on with it or is there another option. Thank you.