I brought some Nucs home last Tuesday With all the excitement around here this past week I finally combined 1 of them with a partial swarm rescue I had on Sunday morning. My plan was to transfer this other NUC into a 10 frame deep late afternoon yesterday. When I went out to began to gather the equipment this is what I saw.
It swarmed up in the same area as the 2 swarms last week did but did not settle. Instead it settled back down around and under the same nuc box it left.
It took about 2.5 hours for them to get back in the nuc box and even through the night 1000 or so stayed on the outside. I went out early today and did the transfer into the 10 deep. This nuc had 5 frames of bees on top of bees and I mean more bees than I have ever seen in a NUC and they were HOT this morning. I did not even look real closely but a lot of capped brood. I worked as quickly as possible and got the hec out of there.
Anyway, got them all tucked in for now. Was this just overcrowded conditions??
