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Title: Advice please - keeping a captured swarm in the new hive?
Post by: Damian on June 12, 2011, 05:57:23 PM

hi, I live in Barbados and am new to Beekeeping, 9 months. I have two strong hives. However, i have twice put a new captured swarm, with young queen, into a third hive, but each time I find that they have gone after a couple of days. Any advice pse? D

Title: Re: Advice please - keeping a captured swarm in the new hive?
Post by: vmmartin on June 12, 2011, 05:59:19 PM

Catch the queen in a queen catcher and place her inside this hive for a couple days until they get all cozy in there and then let her out.

Title: Re: Advice please - keeping a captured swarm in the new hive?
Post by: Bee-Bop on June 12, 2011, 06:32:26 PM

But a Queen excluder on the bottom of the box for a few days, this lets her have cells to start laying then she is is in her home !

Bee-Bop

Title: Re: Advice please - keeping a captured swarm in the new hive?
Post by: hardwood on June 12, 2011, 06:36:21 PM

Pull a frame of open brood from one of your strong hives and give it to the swarm.

Scott

Title: Re: Advice please - keeping a captured swarm in the new hive?
Post by: Damian on June 12, 2011, 08:42:01 PM

Thanks for the advice, all makes sense. Will try next time. D

Title: Re: Advice please - keeping a captured swarm in the new hive?
Post by: sean on June 13, 2011, 07:50:46 PM

Hi, I normally do both. Most times I ma not sure whether or not i actually got the queen so I use the queen excluder on the bottom board and put in a frame of brood. I figure that if there is no queen then they have a start. If the queen is there then there is still no harm done

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