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Simply put... after a swam in a nearby town had not found another hive location, they started drawing comb and the queen started laying 40' up in the branches of the tree. With a windy night last week, the tree broke in half. I got a call and recovered the bees. (Nearly 2 full frames of brood and ~5# of workers; and a good looking queen...) Boxed them up in a full-depth with two frames of old brood comb the two "tied up" recovered comb. The other frames (all on one side) are undrawn foundation.
It's been a week now and although there is a little uncapped 'tiny' brood in the recovered comb, I could not see any new eggs or brood in my "donated" frames. One side of one of the frames is full of nectar. I saw the queen and she looks very good and "frisky." There are no supercedure cells being drawn on any of the brood I saw.
Am I just being a bit too impatient after their scary week?
Mike
It's been a week now and although there is a little uncapped 'tiny' brood in the recovered comb, I could not see any new eggs or brood in my "donated" frames. One side of one of the frames is full of nectar. I saw the queen and she looks very good and "frisky." There are no supercedure cells being drawn on any of the brood I saw.
Am I just being a bit too impatient after their scary week?
Mike