Worldwide Beekeeping
Beekeeping => General Beekeeping => Topic started by: Jen on January 13, 2014, 02:40:42 pm
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In this pic you will see a small Patio Hive to the left. The first two years it had the same queen. Last spring, the third year, it swarmed three times, and the frames had 6 supercedure cells on them, some empty some not. After the three swarms I transplanted the remaining bees into the deeps sitting next to the Patio Hive.
Going into the fourth season now, I don't know if this is the original queen (prob not) or if it's a new queen from the events of last year swarming.
(https://worldwidebeekeeping.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs24.postimg.cc%2Fcs051su9d%2FDSCF6776.jpg&hash=99a2dccdfd22d2864a12002af9a7e35ae14d1495) (http://postimg.cc/image/cs051su9d/)
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Highly unlikely it's your original queen.
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K. That's what I was thinking after studying swarms. So then, my queen is about a year old.
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Usually the first swarm takes the old queen, or, more accurately the old queen takes the bees and off they go. so its most likely your current queen ws one of the new ones.
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Thank You kind gentlemen, I going to chart that down.
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a snip....
Last spring, the third year, it swarmed three times
tecumseh...
somebody need to convince them girls to stop that kind of nonsense. swarming is good subject to explore... standing right smack dab in the middle of one is in someways almost magical.
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tecumseh...
""somebody needed to convince them girls to stop that kind of nonsense. swarming is good subject to explore... standing right smack dab in the middle of one is in someways almost magical""
Those three swarms were out of a small Patio Hive I had at the time. When we took the lid off in spring it was stuffed with wax, and larvae between the lid and top bars. We exposed a lot of larvae getting the lid off. Anyway, that was why there was so much swarming. The first swarm was HUUUGE! I had never seen one before. Thousands of dosile bees in the air all around me. It was definately magical! I will never forget it.