Hi all,
I'm really disappointed because I thought I was doing well with my splits and it was going to plan and then.....
My bees swarmed today luckily near to my apiary and I managed to collect them. The only issue is that I didn't have a spare hive so put them back in the original hive which I know is probably the wrong thing to do.
I carried out a split a couple of weeks ago and this is the hive with the new queen. I had a quick check of the frames before I collected the swarm and the queen had space to lay eggs.
I think the issue was the hive was extremely full with bees.
I've put a super on today to try and disperse them a bit. What else can I do?
Shall I replace a couple of frames with excess stores with foundation? (I will put the stores into my other hive I split).
Thanks in advance
I'm really disappointed because I thought I was doing well with my splits and it was going to plan and then.....
My bees swarmed today luckily near to my apiary and I managed to collect them. The only issue is that I didn't have a spare hive so put them back in the original hive which I know is probably the wrong thing to do.
I carried out a split a couple of weeks ago and this is the hive with the new queen. I had a quick check of the frames before I collected the swarm and the queen had space to lay eggs.
I think the issue was the hive was extremely full with bees.
I've put a super on today to try and disperse them a bit. What else can I do?
Shall I replace a couple of frames with excess stores with foundation? (I will put the stores into my other hive I split).
Thanks in advance