From: "deelusbybeekeeper" <deelusbybeekeeper@excelonline.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 08:06:39 -0700
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: Sugar syrup and starting hives

Hi Phil:

You write:

> The queen seems to be new, and she is laying but not very much
> right now.
> There are only small amounts of pollen in the frames, but I don't see it
> coming in the way it used to be. Most of the frames were already drawn.
> But they drew one side of one out a week ago during the storage phase.

Reply:

You say most of the frames were already drawn and that they drew one side of one out a week ago.

Are the frames positioned so that the queen has a place in which to lay and
expand the brood nest i.e. some empty comb available where she is laying
now(though not so much the the bees cannot handle it)?

Could be though, that you are in a temporary lull period waiting for the
newly laid brood to emerge, before the bees can start coming again with new
workers,as the old bees received with the queen die off from old age.

Then the new hive will start progressively coming forward again and
building.Most new packages and hives hit a lull period.

Dee