Do224
Drone Bee
- Joined
- May 27, 2020
- Messages
- 1,181
- Reaction score
- 539
- Location
- North Cumbria
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- I aim for 4…often becomes 6
A bit convoluted so bear with me. I had to do an artificial swarm on a db colony today. Having nuc’d the queen with a couple of frames I went through the original hive and found 12 frames of brood...the rest of the frames either empty or with some stores. So I decided to condense them down into a single bb and then supered them. This left me with one surplus frame of brood. The colony next door had a virgin emerge on 19th June which I’m waiting to get mated. I found an empty frame in that hive and replaced it with the frame of brood I had left over from the other hive. The frame has bias so I’m just wondering if they’ll draw cells on it, given that they likely have a virgin queen? I’m thinking they won’t but thought I’d double check otherwise I’d probably be opening them up again in s few days to make sure.