Hello Everyone,My one hive was very very strong and i inspected it today and i saw two capped swarm cells on the bottom of one of the deep frames, so I took that frame with the two swarm cells and put it into another deep hive body along with 3 other frames of bees and capped brood. Do you think this hive will have a chance at getting through the winter or do you think it is to late to make that split and I should kill the swarm cells and put the frames back in??Thanks
Quote from: achunter on June 13, 2009, 02:54:36 pmHello Everyone,My one hive was very very strong and i inspected it today and i saw two capped swarm cells on the bottom of one of the deep frames, so I took that frame with the two swarm cells and put it into another deep hive body along with 3 other frames of bees and capped brood. Do you think this hive will have a chance at getting through the winter or do you think it is to late to make that split and I should kill the swarm cells and put the frames back in??Thanks I don't think that you have anything to worry about. There is TONS of time left in the season. Destroying queen cells is never a good idea. Since you took them out and put them in a nuc, did you find the queen in the other hive? There is still a possibility that they will swarm even though you took the cells out. In order to keep them from swarming you really need to remove the queen and a few frames of brood and place them in a nuc to simulate that the hive has swarmed.I did just that about a month ago. As there were swarm cells on a few different frames I took one of the frames and placed it in a nuc and got a new queen out of that one, then the nuc that I put the queen into did great and the hive never did swarm. Worked perfectly, though there is no guarantee that it will work that way every time. The season is really just getting into full swing where you are at... don't fret... just keep after it, doing what works for you and your hive will do just fine.
some one recommended that i should switch the positions of the hives, put the new starter hive in the position of the strong colony and move the strong colony down the row, there in boosting the starter hives number up by allowing all the field bees to move into the new starter colony. good idea or no?
I live in S. Idaho and swarm season just got over last week.
alright so say they were superseedur cells, will this mess up the hive i took them out of??
so if the hive is queenless a hive that strong will just make more supercedure cells correct??