A week ago yesterday I caught a swarm in my yard. I saw it come out of the box and retrieved it from a low hanging tree limb. Today I'm going through my hives inspect, robbing, and reducing. I want to make sure all my hives are queen right. Low and behold, the parent hive and the swarm hive both had eggs and small larva. go figure.
I guess they were in too big of a hurry to pay any attention to the math ;)
so cool
math was my poor subject also
Quote from: GSF on September 22, 2014, 10:41:35 PM
A week ago yesterday I caught a swarm in my yard. I saw it come out of the box and retrieved it from a low hanging tree limb. Today I'm going through my hives inspect, robbing, and reducing. I want to make sure all my hives are queen right. Low and behold, the parent hive and the swarm hive both had eggs and small larva. go figure.
I guess they were in too big of a hurry to pay any attention to the math ;)
Gary,
Your parent hive must have had to wait a few days to swarm. That is pretty nice to have a laying queen that quick.
Did you give the swarm some drawn comb?
Jim
Yes Jim. Fortunately or Unfortunately I've had two hives to go queen less recently. The first one was a swarm and I gave it about 4 deep frames, the other was the card board box external cut out. It also received about 4. The last one I made a modified screen bottom board and I just put the super with the cut out on top. I figure about Thursday or Friday I'll remove it. This hive has been so long with out a queen I could have probably just put her in there and they would of been tickled pink.