JWF
Field Bee
- Joined
- Oct 8, 2014
- Messages
- 727
- Reaction score
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- Location
- Herne Bay, Kent
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- Somehow this is now 6! Er 7!
I had wangerooge once, antibiotics cleared it up within a week
I had wangerooge once, antibiotics cleared it up within a week
I want a 'wangerooge' queen for the name alone!!
My last hive is going to outer pastures from cottage yard. First I must kill swarming fever from the hive with AS. it takes 2 days. I have only 1-2 hives in one site on pastures.
Does that mean you are requeening 2 days after the AS?
Checked the Nuc again today that i checked on Saturday, she was not laying on Saturday and they where being robbed, the doner capped brood has emerged and they are defending the small entrance very very well and the frame of honey i gave them Saturday has kept them alive, the best thing though the new mated Queen is firing on all cylinders (brood and eggs) so they will make a brood box or two before winter arrives... Happy days after loads of stress these past couple of months.. all down to one good fellow member..
2 days means that bees have drawn foundations half way. It tells that swarming fever is gone.
And then you put them all back together Finnie? I'm assuming they're this year's queens?
Very tempted to try this next year with a couple of hives. Vertical AS with the queen and flyers going into 3 shallows full of that plastic foundation they don't like to draw. What's the worst that can happen - loads of weird brace comb? They swarm a week later?
I'm assuming they're this year's queens?
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They swarm a week later? ::
I use only horizontal AS. Vertical is a mess.
Normal AS. I do not know what is worst?..you do not have any foundations and somehow you cannot buy them? You do not have frames. No boxes. At least many my friends have such situation. Sometimes me too. We help each others.
You must take care that they do not swarm week later. Read the signs.
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Did a paper combine of my Drone Laying Worker hive with a Q+ hive.
I know it's not the recommended way but I'm hoping that the Q+ hive will get a boost now the flows are starting.
I suspect they'll probably try to swarm again but we'll see.
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