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An Artificial Swarm Attempt Gone Awry.
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<blockquote data-quote="tristan" data-source="post: 13021" data-attributes="member: 30"><p>when i say "move far away" i mean km's not m's. </p><p>the reason being that the field bees from the nuc will fly back to the parent and will have a bit of a scrap, because they have different queen they are regarded as invaders. probably why the parent hive was a bit nasty. moving them far away means the bees are lost and won't fly back home.</p><p> trouble is now you have a nuc thats lost a lot of its bees making it very weak, which makes it vulnerable and also it may not bring food in to keep raising more bees and will start to decline. it really needs to be fed pollen supplement, assuming there is some honey stores in it. if no stores it will also need sugar feed but that brings a big risk of it being robbed.</p><p></p><p>chewed out queen cell typically indicates there is a new queen, tho she will take some time before she starts to lay. just leave them alone and have a look in month or two.</p><p></p><p></p><p>whats the box at the bottom of that hive?</p><p></p><p>in the 2nd pic whats the stack of gear between the hives?</p><p></p><p>its a big learning curve. however reading the books and understanding the why's, and how things work, makes it a whole lot easier.</p><p>once you know why things are done, then situations like this become easy to fix and easy to avoid. then beekeeping becomes a lot nicer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tristan, post: 13021, member: 30"] when i say "move far away" i mean km's not m's. the reason being that the field bees from the nuc will fly back to the parent and will have a bit of a scrap, because they have different queen they are regarded as invaders. probably why the parent hive was a bit nasty. moving them far away means the bees are lost and won't fly back home. trouble is now you have a nuc thats lost a lot of its bees making it very weak, which makes it vulnerable and also it may not bring food in to keep raising more bees and will start to decline. it really needs to be fed pollen supplement, assuming there is some honey stores in it. if no stores it will also need sugar feed but that brings a big risk of it being robbed. chewed out queen cell typically indicates there is a new queen, tho she will take some time before she starts to lay. just leave them alone and have a look in month or two. whats the box at the bottom of that hive? in the 2nd pic whats the stack of gear between the hives? its a big learning curve. however reading the books and understanding the why's, and how things work, makes it a whole lot easier. once you know why things are done, then situations like this become easy to fix and easy to avoid. then beekeeping becomes a lot nicer. [/QUOTE]
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