is this hive hot or not

[debay]

i have another post her about my hive and its issues this year. it has been rough going. this is my second or third re-queening. I went in the other day and the queen cells that I did have were either empty or the sides were torn out. Im guessing that one hatched and she killed off the others. They are slightly easier to irritate than they used to be but Im hoping that when the queen issues settles that they will too.  do you find going in every third day is a bit too invasive? That might be a good cause for a swarm. they get or got smoked every third day, I can see where they would kind of freak out.

[ArmucheeBee]

I don't smoke when I go in.  I am really, really, easy.  I don't crush anyone or make them upset at all.  I use a second deep which is empty and a Miller feeder on that.  So I pull the feeder off and look in.  Then take the empty deep off.  They're all still washboarding and messing around.  I check what I need to check and in 5 minutes I'm out.  They're still wash boarding and messing around.  No one gets upset, only one/two frames are moved to check the Q-cell and that's it.  They're pretty easy going--Italian Queen.  The feeding seems to settle them down too.  I seem to get buzzed a lot more when I use smoke.

[Scadsobees]

So it has been a week since, but even if you requeen this late, the mean bees will still be around till winter and possibly till spring.

If they die over the winter you lost $25.  If you wait and they die, then you haven't lost anything. 

And there will be many less bees to sort through in the spring, so requeening will be much easier then.

Either way you can requeen in March or April before they really ramp up and I think that might be easier if you can tolerate them till then.

If they were in my backyard, yes I'd do something about them now.  But if in an outyard and not bothering anybody....

Rick