Hello All,
I checked my hives yesterday and I found about 6 capped queen cells. I am in south central pa and I believe that the main hive is going to swarm and unless I could pull of an artificial swarm which I couldnt because I could not find the queen. It appeared that all of the bees were still in the hive as of yesterday. I didnt really know what to do but I took two frames with two good capped queen cells and put them in a 5 frame deep NUC. I put in a frame of honey and another frame of brood and moved it to another bee yard. I dont know if I did this right or not but I would at least like to take this as a learning opportunity and if anyone could tell me how I should have handled it, it would be much appreciated.
Thank you!
I checked my hives yesterday and I found about 6 capped queen cells. I am in south central pa and I believe that the main hive is going to swarm and unless I could pull of an artificial swarm which I couldnt because I could not find the queen. It appeared that all of the bees were still in the hive as of yesterday. I didnt really know what to do but I took two frames with two good capped queen cells and put them in a 5 frame deep NUC. I put in a frame of honey and another frame of brood and moved it to another bee yard. I dont know if I did this right or not but I would at least like to take this as a learning opportunity and if anyone could tell me how I should have handled it, it would be much appreciated.
Thank you!