Great Set Up! I've been writing my current hive info on blue painters tape stuck to the back of hives, with red sharpie. That way I can keep longer continuous records and even carry over to the next year if necessary. Cover space will either get used up or confusing after awhile. Keep Beeing!
I'm here in Lineville SL and my hives are killing it this year. I have just about 3 supers on all my hives. Plus I have caught 10 swarms so I am selling them cheap to get rid of them. I only wanted 4 hives and now have 15.
i have done the same thing with a queen less hive, but i put news paper between the queen less hive and the swarm, they will accept the new queen better.
Did you do like a news paper introduction or literally just popped them on top? This year I'm using snellgrove boards to join swarms to my middling hives so they'll be 2 colonies filling one super like a demaree. What your doing looks like the same thing with less steps and you get a bonus queen if you need her elsewhere.
I installed the swarm (established 5F nuc w/ laying queen) directly into the existing colony's brood section. I felt comfortable doing it that way knowing the size of the nuc vs the amount of bees in the existing colony, which I believed was queenless. They accepted the nuc's queen. If the existing colony had killed the nuc's queen and they were truly queenless, they would just raise another one from the nuc's eggs.
You are going to need more hive location soon.😁Blessed Days...
Great Set Up! I've been writing my current hive info on blue painters tape stuck to the back of hives, with red sharpie. That way I can keep longer continuous records and even carry over to the next year if necessary. Cover space will either get used up or confusing after awhile. Keep Beeing!
I'm here in Lineville SL and my hives are killing it this year. I have just about 3 supers on all my hives. Plus I have caught 10 swarms so I am selling them cheap to get rid of them. I only wanted 4 hives and now have 15.
i have done the same thing with a queen less hive, but i put news paper between the queen less hive and the swarm, they will accept the new queen better.
Great information! Thanks for your time!
Did you do like a news paper introduction or literally just popped them on top? This year I'm using snellgrove boards to join swarms to my middling hives so they'll be 2 colonies filling one super like a demaree. What your doing looks like the same thing with less steps and you get a bonus queen if you need her elsewhere.
I installed the swarm (established 5F nuc w/ laying queen) directly into the existing colony's brood section. I felt comfortable doing it that way knowing the size of the nuc vs the amount of bees in the existing colony, which I believed was queenless. They accepted the nuc's queen.
If the existing colony had killed the nuc's queen and they were truly queenless, they would just raise another one from the nuc's eggs.
@@rockridgebees1417 not always true!
I never said it was. There is no "always" in beekeeping. You just have to make the decision on what you are reading from the bees.