Yeah exactly the same here,best flow i've ever seen.Checked hives today added more supers as they had filled the ones I added last week ,and there was me thinking there would be no spring crop just goes to show how wrong you can be.
They seem to have gone from 0 to 90mph in no time.
I would never clatter around in a hive so soon after an introduction, but it looks like they didn't accept her.a post introduction 7 day inspection.
Yes there was BIAS, I dispatched the old Queen and put the cage with the new Queen in straight away, damn it . Do you think I should give them until the end of this week and have another look? Knock down any cells to make them hopelessly Queenless and order another Queen? I was wanting to introduce a F1 Buckfast Queen to upgrade my mongrel bees. I accept your advice to keep out of the hive for longer following introduction, every day’s a school dayI would never clatter around in a hive so soon after an introduction, but it looks like they didn't accept her.
Was there open brood in the hive before you put the new queen in?
they'll move it up there when they see fit, and not beforeAfter reading here that supers are being filled and adding another super I thought I'd have a quick peep, the super we put in to two of the hives after empty but the second brood is absolutely chocca with nectar, bursting with bees, concerned they won't take it up and the queen will be struggling for room, took some open nectar brood frames out and put in foundation , donated to another hive. But will they eventually take it up or will we have to keep donating
Great, I’ll do that. Thank you for your adviceif they actually released the new queen, she may still be in there, just take down the QC's and wait a week to see what transpires
Fortunately, that's not a shook swarm ..
A shook swarm is where some raving lunatics empty all the bees from an existing colony into another hive with just frames and foundation, discarding any brood and sometimes stores ... not the answer to anything much in the normal run of beekeeping - apart from some SBI's who will allow it when EFB is found.
It's recommended by lots of less than thinking beekeepers for everything from 'spring cleaning a colony' to 'swarm control' and a load of other things as well ..
All it does is sets back a thriving colony .. not the best idea that has ever come down through the annals of beekeeping.
but if you are using the brood to boost other colonies you are just dumping the mites elsewhereYou do not discard the brood and stores, you use them to make nucs or, or give to another colony. Yit also gives you great timing for a zap to the mites.
no it isn't - shook swarming has got nothing to do with avoiding swarming - and it's not what it's used for in the UKYes it sets back a thriving colony but that is the point, to prevent swarming,
If you think it's good, you definitely have a problemI have a slight problem with the idea that a shook swarm is evil
we'll have to beg to differ there.Kirsten Traynor is not a "less than thinking beekeeper", nor is she a raving lunatic.
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