Good morning, well I opened up the "Tire" bee hive today for a look and as many will remember I did a cut out May 25th and discovered emergency queen cells on June 5th. Well today after following your advise I have a queen right hive with eggs, brood and capped brood and also some nice fuzzy new house bees, but now a question or 2 if I may?
The brood comb and some stores were rubber banded to empty frames and put in the center of a deep hive body and now two of them are waxed together quite securely and there is brood in this comb as well so separating them would kill a good number of developing bees. Leave it and do it later after hive is strong and into second deep?
Do it sooner? If so why?
I am very happy that they have taken care of the queen problem though I did not see her and guessing she was on the frames I could not remove for fear of killing brood. That area is also where most of the bees were working tending to eggs and young.....
Thanks in advance my mentoring group :cool:
Nugget Shooter,
Why would you want to bother them.
I opened one of my swarm hives last weeks and the bottom brood chamber has several frames stuck together with brood comb between them. I just closed it back up because I have no reason to tear it apart.
The hive is growing nicely and the dry oil tray was clean. A good indication of a healthy hive.
Jim
Kind of what I figured you would say :wink: Guess I have been paying attention, but still may need to bug you all when I over think things....
That is what this site is for. We answer the same questions that your mentor would answer.
Don't stop asking.
Eventually I will have to work in those frames but not until I have a reason.
The only reason I was in that hive was I was looking for a frame of brood to take nurse bees for another hive that was queenless that I was adding a queen to. When I saw how much damage I would have to do to get a frame out, I closed it up and went to another hive.
Jim