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- From: Randall Austin <ra41717 AT gmail.com>
- To: Richard Brown <richardcameronbrown AT gmail.com>, ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [ocba] Swarm to Nuc Integration
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 17:29:23 -0400
Rick,
Remember, the colony gets the queen down to flying-fitness before they swarm. She gets skinnier and she stops laying. So 3 days after you hived the swarm, I'm not surprised that you don't see lots of evidence of a queen. At most, if she has re-started laying, there will eggs but they are very difficult to see on new pearly-white wax. And if this is a secondary swarm, it may be with a virgin -- if so she'll need time to mate and then will need a few days beyond that to start laying. So I would lay odds that she is there, just as she is supposed to be, unless after another week you still don't see any brood at all. If you want to combine this colony with another in a week and a half, one option is to just do a newspaper combine as you would with any other combine. That's your choice/your decision. If I were going to do that, I would think about plucking the queen out of one of those colonies before combining them and offering her for sale -- queens are going for $25 to $30 or more this season. Randall On 4/20/2016 3:56 PM, Richard Brown wrote:
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[ocba] Swarm to Nuc Integration,
Richard Brown, 04/20/2016
- Re: [ocba] Swarm to Nuc Integration, Randall Austin, 04/20/2016
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