![]() There was capped brood in it and un capped brood and a big fat queen. So I went back to the swarm from last week that I watched go into that box and went through it to see if I could find brood in it and compare it. nothing, but there was a lot of honey in the top box and I found a cluster that was like velcro. no eggs (not that my eyes are as young as they used to be, I should have had my readers with me) that I could see. eventually the hive dies off since it wasn't a real queen. was it the swarm from last week and I had a "worker-queen" which only lays drone eggs. I opened it cautiously just in case and lo and behold there were BEES. Then I moved on to the last box of which I was pretty sure was empty. I moved on to the swarm boxes and found that the one box was loaded with calm bees. not this box because I wouldn't be seeing all this larvae if that was the case. I think the swarm came from somewhere else. There is brood between the super and the deep. Off came the first super and then the inner cover to reveal the super I left on there last year with the hopes they would get through the winter with the extra honey in there. There is a super and inner cover left on after last years honey extraction. he is just learning and is interested in having bees. Then I called my friend Michael to see if he wanted to work on bees today. That is because the bees that cane were all full of honey, but only enough for three days, they may need a bit of help.Īt any rate, I am excited for you and hope that you will have more pics of your bees to show.įirst thing this morning I weed eated around the hives. ![]() I wonder if you could get a frame of closed brood from a fellow beekeeper to put in those hives so that the queen can immediately begin laying and the house bees will soon emerge to tend the larvae.Īnother technique that we use here with swarms is to give them a bit of sugar water after three days of being in your hives. You know, these swarms are essentially all foragers and have no "house bees" with them. I am really happy for you and I hope that you have two swarms with queens. Are you going to at least give them some new foundation? Now is also a great time to treat them with a light spraying oxalic acid, sugar and water because all the varroa mites will have no capped cells to hide in. You were naughty not to have cleaned those hives yet. I pulled the cover off of one and took off the extra super, but the other is just sitting. I haven't even cleaned out both hives yet. We will see tomorrow if they are still in both hives or if bunches of them ended up in the wrong one, but I don't know. Hopefully there are two swarms from the only hive I had. Hive number 2 also got some bees a lot of bees. As I stood there thinking I couldn't be so lucky as to just have them hive themselves right in one of the hives sitting from the last dead colonies. Then I stood there and watched waiting for them to cluster. There is nothing else like it that I can relate it to. Anyone who has heard it knows what it is. there is a very distinctive sound to a swarm of bees. Tonight as I was walking across the yard to get a bucket and fertilizer for the corn I heard the hum. I should have just set the 300.00 on fire and I would still have the same nothing. Last year I spent 300.00 on bees for 3 new hives so I had honey and pollination for the garden. I just don't have enough time to do it all.
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