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  • From: Rochelle Sparko <rochelle.sparko AT gmail.com>
  • To: "ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org" <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [ocba] ocba Digest, Vol 97, Issue 9
  • Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 22:54:43 -0400

Hi all,
My hive swarmed this morning and landed along the base of the trunk of my
peach tree. I tried to get them into an empty super, but couldn't manage to
snag the queen with my lame swarm catching efforts. If anyone is up for
showing a new bee keeper their swarm catching moves, I'd be delighted to
provide food and beer. And some of the peaches later this summer!
My swarm and I are right in downtown Durham. You can reach me at 919 410
7645.

Thanks much!

Rochelle


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> 1. New queen but dwindling hive (mary passannante)
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> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 14:21:23 -0400
> From: mary passannante <marypassannante AT earthlink.net>
> Subject: [ocba] New queen but dwindling hive
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> Hi all. On 3/16 , I preventively split 2 overflowing hives into a new deep.
> I moved a mix of brood/pollen/stores (4 frames each). Today we have a new
> queen that is not fertilized yet. Bee numbers are dwindling and they are
> clustered on about 3 frames now. They abandoned a frame of capped brood and
> the rest have hatched. I suspect the cold weather didn't help. I am worried
> as bees naturally die off there won't be enough bees. Is it too late to
> move more bees or brood into the hive now that there is a new queen?
> thanks, mary
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> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 12:11:33 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Cheryl Kozel <cherylkozel1641 AT att.net>
> Subject: [ocba] Swarm
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> GoodAfternoon:
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> While I was trying to decide what to do about a vetry packed hive.The bees
> just
> made the decision for me and have swarmed.?It's about15 feet up on pine
> branch.?? I was wonderiing if anyone could help me recapture them?
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> I am in Chapel Hill and I can be contacted at 919-942-1641.
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> Thanks,
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> Cheryl Kozel
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> Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2013 16:05:37 -0400
> From: Randall Austin <ra41717 AT gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ocba] New queen but dwindling hive
> To: mary passannante <marypassannante AT earthlink.net>
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> Mary,
>
> The presence of a new queen doesn't matter with respect to boosting a
> weak hive with a brood frame or two from a strong hive. The beekeeping
> term for this is "equalizing" and you can do it any time, regardless of
> whether the hive is queenright, queenless or has a virgin. No problem.
>
> Randall Austin
>
> On 4/6/2013 2:21 PM, mary passannante wrote:
>> Hi all. On 3/16 , I preventively split 2 overflowing hives into a new
>> deep. I moved a mix of brood/pollen/stores (4 frames each). Today we have
>> a new queen that is not fertilized yet. Bee numbers are dwindling and they
>> are clustered on about 3 frames now. They abandoned a frame of capped
>> brood and the rest have hatched. I suspect the cold weather didn't help. I
>> am worried as bees naturally die off there won't be enough bees. Is it too
>> late to move more bees or brood into the hive now that there is a new
>> queen?
>> thanks, mary
>>
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> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 17:10:09 -0400
> From: annallys Goodwin-Landher <annallys AT hotmail.com>
> Subject: [ocba] wax melter
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> Hi,
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> Cleaned out all the drawn wax that's three years old and want to borrow a
> wax melter so I can process the wax.
> Regards,
> Annallys
> 919 933-9109
> annallys AT hotmail.com
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> Four years after the bees are gone, humanity is gone.
> Albert Einstein
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> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 20:36:17 -0400
> From: Marty Hanks <marty AT justbeenc.com>
> Subject: [ocba] Jens Bees
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> Hey everyone,
>
> I wanted to share that Jen Hall and I did her very first split today...and
> not a minute to soon. As you all can guess the bees are about to go into
> full swarm season this coming week so make sure you get your swarm gear
> ready!! Jen's bees look EXCELLENT! She had 3 8-frame hive bodies slam full
> and a new one on top of that she added a week ago.
>
>> From those four boxes she got two healthy splits(one in the second picture)
> and i did a 5 frame medium take away. The frame she is holding had 6 queen
> cells on it alone, with a total colony queen cell count near 18.
>
> I'm SO proud of her and her bees...back when i was cautioning her to stop
> feeding them going into winter she mostly listened...but guess whos bees
> made it there?!
>
> Well see how they develop and she's putting out 2 swarm boxes just in case.
> I don't know if we can call her a NEWBEE anymore...well maybe til she
> catches her first swarm!
>
> Its about to get crazy this week for sure!
>
> cheers and good luck!
> marty
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