new home

[bill]

the swarm I got last week is settled into its new home consisting of ten frames of foundation. when i put the foundation in they were clustered on the north wall of the hive body. I added the frames with foundation slowly and let the weight settle without killing to many I hope.I looked in last evening and noticed they are still huggging the same wall but are drawing out comb on the first couple of frames. I assumed they would move to the middle of the hive. i know they usually put honey on the outside edge of the hive body. is this normal. I guess they don't really have a concept of where they are. I am curious to see how they will go. Is it good medicine to manipulate them or just let them do their own thing.

[Michael Bush]

They always seem to have a prefered side.  Usually the east or south side.

[Jerrymac]

Mine is mostly in the South east corners.

[leominsterbeeman]

My smaller colonies like the southside.   large colonies doesn't seem to matter as much.

[bill]

I got another call today but the guy called back in about ten minutes and said they had flew away. I was kind of glad as I am not quite ready to house another one I need to put some foundation on some more framesand get another deep ready in my kit. shame though they were in a lo hanging tree and it would have been an easy one. I now have original hive one nuc and two swarm colonies. the swarms are very docile so far but I have found out that a strong hive is much more aggressive than a swarm or a nuc. I am just hoping they do not have african blood