Two weeks ago I did an extraction of a tennis ball sized hive, maybe 250 bees in all. It is currently in a nuc with a frame of honey and a robbing screen.
A few days ago I started a cone method trap out of a neighbor's wall. The 5 frames of the nuc now appear to be full with bees building comb, and there is still a lot of activity coming out of and trying to get into the wall.
I was going to swap out the nuc for a regular deep hive body to give them some more real estate, but thought it might make more sense, and be a fun experiment, to add some of the bees that I had trapped to the smaller hive. It's less than two miles, so I would keep them in the box for two days then do a newspaper combine.
The foragers I have trapped out would out number the tennis ball sized queenright hive 100:1.
Too much going on?
A few days ago I started a cone method trap out of a neighbor's wall. The 5 frames of the nuc now appear to be full with bees building comb, and there is still a lot of activity coming out of and trying to get into the wall.
I was going to swap out the nuc for a regular deep hive body to give them some more real estate, but thought it might make more sense, and be a fun experiment, to add some of the bees that I had trapped to the smaller hive. It's less than two miles, so I would keep them in the box for two days then do a newspaper combine.
The foragers I have trapped out would out number the tennis ball sized queenright hive 100:1.
Too much going on?
