Splits absconded

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Grandma_DOG

August 10, 2009, 05:30:03 PM
I did 5 splits this summer. 3 from KTBH into TBH nucs, and 2 from KTBH into langs.

1 of the KTBH nucs absconded and 1 of the KTBH absconded.

Why? Should I put on queen excluders and use LGO in every lang split?
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David LaFerney

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August 10, 2009, 10:56:28 PM
Quote from: Grandma_DOG on August 10, 2009, 05:30:03 PM
I did 5 splits this summer. 3 from KTBH into TBH nucs, and 2 from KTBH into langs.

1 of the KTBH nucs absconded and 1 of the KTBH absconded.

Why? Should I put on queen excluders and use LGO in every lang split?

So you gave them a new queen?  Did they leave right away?  Was it hotter than the hinges of Hades? I'm just curious for I certainly wouldn't know why.
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." Samuel Clemens

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Grandma_DOG

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August 11, 2009, 03:05:29 AM
Walk away split. Let them make their own.

Yes on the hot, days up to 105.

-mt

Quote from: David LaFerney on August 10, 2009, 10:56:28 PM
Quote from: Grandma_DOG on August 10, 2009, 05:30:03 PM
I did 5 splits this summer. 3 from KTBH into TBH nucs, and 2 from KTBH into langs.

1 of the KTBH nucs absconded and 1 of the KTBH absconded.

Why? Should I put on queen excluders and use LGO in every lang split?

So you gave them a new queen?  Did they leave right away?  Was it hotter than the hinges of Hades? I'm just curious for I certainly wouldn't know why.
Here is my new book on Swarm Trapping at http://learningbeekeeping.com/beekeeping-articles/how-to-swarm-trap/ and follow me on youtube at OutOfaBlueSky
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