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How Soon Can I Move My Hive After Requeen?
I recently did a split of my two hive as they were about to swarm, I was able to split the resources into 6 nuc boxes, all complete with at least one queen cell, twp frame of brood, and a frame of honey.
One of my main two hives swarmed anyway and because I removed all the queen cells from it, it was queenless. As all my queen cells had already hatched in the nucs, I called up a local breeder and put a new laying queen in on Wednesday. The bees accepted her well (I've seen the difference between a hive attacking a caged queen and accepting one).
I'd like to move these two main hives to another apiary I have about 30 minutes away as there is a major nectar flow there right now. Of course I'm fine moving the hive with my existing queen, but should I wait to move the other? If so, how long? I've always thought it best to wait at least two weeks before disturbing the hive so the bees don't take it personally toward the queen.
The hive I requeened is two deeps tall, full of capped brood and larvae but obviously no eggs...she must have only been gone for a few days before I added the new queen cage.
Thoughts? Looking back, I should have moved the hives and THEN done the splits...oops.
I recently did a split of my two hive as they were about to swarm, I was able to split the resources into 6 nuc boxes, all complete with at least one queen cell, twp frame of brood, and a frame of honey.
One of my main two hives swarmed anyway and because I removed all the queen cells from it, it was queenless. As all my queen cells had already hatched in the nucs, I called up a local breeder and put a new laying queen in on Wednesday. The bees accepted her well (I've seen the difference between a hive attacking a caged queen and accepting one).
I'd like to move these two main hives to another apiary I have about 30 minutes away as there is a major nectar flow there right now. Of course I'm fine moving the hive with my existing queen, but should I wait to move the other? If so, how long? I've always thought it best to wait at least two weeks before disturbing the hive so the bees don't take it personally toward the queen.
The hive I requeened is two deeps tall, full of capped brood and larvae but obviously no eggs...she must have only been gone for a few days before I added the new queen cage.
Thoughts? Looking back, I should have moved the hives and THEN done the splits...oops.