re-queening questions

Started by rober, April 10, 2014, 06:09:40 PM

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rober

April 10, 2014, 06:09:40 PM Last Edit: April 10, 2014, 09:24:27 PM by rober
re-queened 3 hives today. one of the hives they balled the cage. bad sign?

GSF

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April 11, 2014, 06:57:38 AM
A couple of thoughts comes to mind. Are you sure there isn't a virgin queen running around? How long have they been queen less? It still may take a couple of days for them to accept her.
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rober

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April 11, 2014, 11:09:09 AM
I went thru the hives the day before & removed the queens so they were queenless for 24 hours. in the other hives 2 seemed like they were having a normal response with some bees showing interest & in a hive where I never found the queen ( no brood of any kind ) the bees are ignoring the cage completely. I even ran this hive thru a queen excluder with a fume board.

BeeDog

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April 11, 2014, 11:11:31 AM
Check if there are queen cells or a virgin queen on the hive, if there aren't shake the bees infront of other hives, make another split and try to introduce the queen to that new split. If it happens again it may be that the queen has a defect or problem.
It is highly recommend that split be done with only strong healthy hives that have at least two Brood Chambers with Brood in all stages of development. Frames with capped Brood should be split evenly between the two hives.

Jim134

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April 11, 2014, 11:49:49 AM Last Edit: April 11, 2014, 12:01:26 PM by Jim 134
Rober ...
Can you tell us why you are requeening ?


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rober

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April 11, 2014, 02:43:17 PM
poor performance. probably should have been done last summer. 2 were swarm queens & the 3rd never really built up last season.
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