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  • From: Todd Walker <mtwalker AT imageray.net>
  • To: Elisabeth Curtis <granda.curtis AT gmail.com>, Orange County Bees <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [ocba] hived swarm advice
  • Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2012 18:12:04 -0400

Elisabeth,

I have seen several cases where a hive swarms and then replaces the queen. Did you see any eggs? If there are eggs then the bees can or may have already begin to sort the problem out with that supersedure cell. If there are no eggs, give them a frame of eggs and wait a week to see what they do with it.

~Todd

From: Elisabeth Curtis <granda.curtis AT gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 17:59:23 -0400
To: Orange County Bees <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [ocba] hived swarm advice

We captured one of our swarms on March 20, 20 days ago, put it in a deep hive body with 8 frames of foundation and two frames with some brood in various stages, and fed them. Today when I looked inside 7 out of the 8 frames are drawn out and filled with capped honey and nectar (it's sooo beautiful and clean!) and the two frames that had some brood on them have scattered capped brood and larvae. Not what you'd call a good laying pattern at all. Lots of bees. No drone brood. One empty supercedure cell, not very big. I'm wondering about the queen. The queen who came with the swarm was about a year old. Any advice?

--
Elisabeth


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