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Here is my problem, I noticed a lot of bees outside 1 of my 6 hives today and they were gathered at the entrance and being really loud so naturally I thought they were getting ready to swarm.
I looked inside and this queen I got last year is still a laying machine and I thought I had kept up with her progress to keep adding room and hopefully stop the urge to swarm, but today I sa 4 closed queen cells.
What can I do now to try and salvage this queen and stop a full blown swarm. Next I have a hive that has a gimp queen and I want to replace her but have no suppliers that are shipping queens at this time.
So, can I take this good queen and put in the gimp queen hive(in a queen cage) after killing her, will they accept her? this would let the other hive finish raising the other queen cells, will this off set that hive from swarming with the old queen gone? Do I just need to do splits on the swarming hive and add a frame with a queen cell on it to the gimp hive? What is my highest % move in this situation. Thanks all, Clark
I looked inside and this queen I got last year is still a laying machine and I thought I had kept up with her progress to keep adding room and hopefully stop the urge to swarm, but today I sa 4 closed queen cells.
What can I do now to try and salvage this queen and stop a full blown swarm. Next I have a hive that has a gimp queen and I want to replace her but have no suppliers that are shipping queens at this time.
So, can I take this good queen and put in the gimp queen hive(in a queen cage) after killing her, will they accept her? this would let the other hive finish raising the other queen cells, will this off set that hive from swarming with the old queen gone? Do I just need to do splits on the swarming hive and add a frame with a queen cell on it to the gimp hive? What is my highest % move in this situation. Thanks all, Clark