ONE OF MY LARGEST HIVE SWARMED IN FRONT OF ME TODAY.IT WAS AMAZING TO SEE THOUSANDS OF BEES COMING OUT OF THE HIVE.AFTER THE SKY WAS FULL OF BEES THEY STARTED TO LAND ON A BRANCH ABOUT 12 FT. HIGH.ONLY ABOUT 1/2 OF THE BEES LANDED ON THE BRANCH,THE OTHER 1/2 WENT BACK IN THE HIVE.I THOUGHT THAT ALL THE FLYING BEES WILL LEAVE WITH THE QUEEN BUT I SEE THATS NOT TRUE.THIS IS 1 OF 2 HIVES I HAVE FOR MY TUPELO HONEY.WELL IT WAS A LOST AS FOR AS MAKING TUPELO HONEY WITH THIS HIVE BUT I WILL GO IN MY OTHER HIVE TOMORROW AN MAKE SURE THEY DONT HAVE QUEEN CELLS IN IT.I GUESS I MISSED THE QUEEN CELL ON THAT HIVE.ITS NOT A TOTAL LOST, I DID GET THE SWARM AND IT WAS A LARGE ONE 7 1/2 LBS. ...SCHAWEE....
I HAVE PICTURES BUT DONT KNOW HOW TO PUT THEM ON THE FORUM.HELP IS NEEDED,THANKS ....SCHAWEE
Quote from: schawee on March 29, 2010, 11:21:32 PM
ONE OF MY LARGEST HIVE SWARMED IN FRONT OF ME TODAY.IT WAS AMAZING TO SEE THOUSANDS OF BEES COMING OUT OF THE HIVE.AFTER THE SKY WAS FULL OF BEES THEY STARTED TO LAND ON a BRANCH ABOUT 12 FT. HIGH.ONLY ABOUT 1/2 OF THE BEES LANDED ON THE BRANCH,THE OTHER 1/2 WENT BACK IN THE HIVE.I THOUGHT THAT ALL THE FLYING BEES WILL LEAVE WITH THE QUEEN BUT I SEE THATS NOT TRUE.THIS IS 1 OF 2 HIVES I HAVE FOR MY TUPELO HONEY.WELL IT WAS a LOST AS FOR AS MAKING TUPELO HONEY WITH THIS HIVE BUT I WILL GO IN MY OTHER HIVE TOMORROW AN MAKE SURE THEY DONT HAVE QUEEN CELLS IN IT.I GUESS I MISSED THE QUEEN CELL ON THAT HIVE.ITS NOT a TOTAL LOST, I DID GET THE SWARM AND IT WAS a LARGE ONE 7 1/2 LBS. ...SCHAWEE....
Only the workers swarm with the queen and about half leave with her.
Hey, I thought you said you did those splits? Queen leaves with the swarm, BTW. If she does not, they go back and round her up.
...JP
jp,this was one of two hives i didn't split.i wanted to make tupelo honey.i did go though both hives and didn't see queen cells so i though i was ok. today i went in the hive that swarmed and found queen cells that was open on the side.what was strange is that there is a cap queen cell and 3 other queen cells thats not caped in the middle brood box with larva and 3 supersede cells that is capped in the botton brood box.i don't know what to do about it.the other 4 splits i did are doing fine. ...schawee
Make more splits!
...JP