mark s
Field Bee
- Joined
- Jun 9, 2009
- Messages
- 752
- Reaction score
- 1
- Location
- Isle Of Wight
- Hive Type
- 14x12
- Number of Hives
- 16 + 3nuc's
evening all
as you may or may not know my one and only have swarmed on sunday,but as i have a clipped queen,they all went back into the hive after a short while.
i then performed an atificial swarm by taking the frame with the queen on and another frame of brood,one of stores and a frame feeder with 1:1 in,i then moved this new hive back onto the old position,leaving the old hive minus the old queen in the new position some 5ft away,i moved the frames together in the old hive filled with new frames of foundation and left them to hopefully produce there own queen.
today however i got a call from home and rushed back to fine that the queen was on the floor outside the new hive (old position) while the old hive(new position) was swarming,i quickly picked up the queen and put her back in the new hive(old position) waited around for about an hour and all seemed to calm down and go back too normal.
can someone please tell me how ive balls-up here as ive not got a clue how ive gone wrong!!!!!
sorry its long winded
mark s
ps im using standard nationals
as you may or may not know my one and only have swarmed on sunday,but as i have a clipped queen,they all went back into the hive after a short while.
i then performed an atificial swarm by taking the frame with the queen on and another frame of brood,one of stores and a frame feeder with 1:1 in,i then moved this new hive back onto the old position,leaving the old hive minus the old queen in the new position some 5ft away,i moved the frames together in the old hive filled with new frames of foundation and left them to hopefully produce there own queen.
today however i got a call from home and rushed back to fine that the queen was on the floor outside the new hive (old position) while the old hive(new position) was swarming,i quickly picked up the queen and put her back in the new hive(old position) waited around for about an hour and all seemed to calm down and go back too normal.
can someone please tell me how ive balls-up here as ive not got a clue how ive gone wrong!!!!!
sorry its long winded
mark s
ps im using standard nationals