well I moved the nut into a 10 frame. I did it before night fall and I moved the hive one foot to the left. well the foragers couldn't find the hive one foot away. However they found my garage that have the empty hive boxes that is 100 ft away. so now I am trying to get them into another nut in the garage. not going so well. I put a little honey in the nut. and that still isn't working, any ideas on how to get them in the box ?
What do you mean "nut"?
I'm assuming "nuc"?
yep NUC....sorry slip of the "t"
ok three martinis and I am ready to train these bees.......LOL
That anything like trying to herd cats?
Quote from: slacker361 on July 13, 2012, 08:43:54 PM
ok three martinis and I am ready to train these bees.......LOL
Who doing the training you or the bees :jawdrop: ???
BEE HAPPY Jim 134 :)
Well I heard a Whip and a chair works wonders. :jerry: :whip:
Try using a migration entrance on the box the bees are going into in the garage. then they go in and can not get out. then in the moring combine them on top of the hive. that well work.
The first time i moved a hive across the yard, I put a tree branch in front of the new location and placed a super with a bottom board and lid in the old location. For 3 nights I took the super with frames from the old location and put it back on the hive. In the morning I put the empty super back at the old location. by the third night there were no bees going back to the old location. This was in the middle of winter with warm days which means they probable would not have survived the cold nights.
Try it.
Jim
Quote from: divemaster1963 on July 13, 2012, 09:35:34 PM
Well I heard a Whip and a chair works wonders. :jerry: :whip:
Try using a migration entrance on the box the bees are going into in the garage. then they go in and can not get out. then in the moring combine them on top of the hive. that well work.
where do you find migration entrance?
Quote from: slacker361 on July 14, 2012, 02:43:19 PM
Quote from: divemaster1963 on July 13, 2012, 09:35:34 PM
Well I heard a Whip and a chair works wonders. :jerry: :whip:
Try using a migration entrance on the box the bees are going into in the garage. then they go in and can not get out. then in the moring combine them on top of the hive. that well work.
where do you find migration entrance?
Brushy Mointain sells them. Page 45 Called Florida Moving Screen. 6.95 each. Catalog No. 516.
john
Quote from: divemaster1963 on July 14, 2012, 11:42:59 PM
Quote from: slacker361 on July 14, 2012, 02:43:19 PM
Quote from: divemaster1963 on July 13, 2012, 09:35:34 PM
Well I heard a Whip and a chair works wonders. :jerry: :whip:
Try using a migration entrance on the box the bees are going into in the garage. then they go in and can not get out. then in the moring combine them on top of the hive. that well work.
where do you find migration entrance?
Brushy Mointain sells them. Page 45 Called Florida Moving Screen. 6.95 each. Catalog No. 516.
john
OH I did see that.....
This past weekend I ,moved a hive from the farm to town. I put a small entrance reducer on it during the day. after dark. I made up a piece of wood that just fit the entrance and allowed me to screw it in place to lock it in. That evening, I went out to plug it up. there were a lot of bees outside the hole. I used the piece of wood to heard them in, one or two at a time. Surprisingly they went in and stayed while I gotthem all in and blocked it up.
Jim
Smoke will drive bees in a hive when closing them up, at night also.
Quote from: AllenF on July 16, 2012, 09:49:25 PM
Smoke will drive bees in a hive when closing them up, at night also.
Hi Allen,
Thanks for the post, but I have a question.
Sometimes I need to move hives that have heavy bearding, in some cases as many as 3000 bees, on the outside of the box. (No, they aren't in the process of swarming, they're just hanging out because it is warmer and more humid than usual.)
My question is: what else can I do to get them to go inside? Smoke doesn't necessarily do the job...sometimes they just start crawling around in all directions (which, needless to say, is contrary to my objectives of moving said hive.)
One thought I have considered is using a fine, continuous mist of water to give them the idea they are being rained on (I got this idea because it seems that actual rain does indeed encourage them to move inside.)
Any thoughts?
Any recommendations?
Regards,
SkepWrangler