[paddab]

Hello
We are new beekeepers and need advice on swarming
We just had what I think was our second swarm on one of our hives, we have 2 hives 1 was a nuc hived in late April and 1was a package hived in middle May. On the hive that swarmed before, I was not home so the next day I added a med super and removed the feeder. Today the same hive swarmed again and is high up a tree. My question is what should I do tomorrow when I go into the hive to check things out, should I remove all but one queen cell? Please advise
Thanks Paul

 

[paddab]

The last swarm was early last week, I also opened up the entrance more
What should my next move be?

 

[paddab]

Thanks Tank,
I will go into hive tomorrow and see whats going on, do you think that there is a chance that they will return to the hive? and do you think that I should do anything tomorrow in regards to any cells that I might find? or just wait and see what happens ? Thanks for all your help,
Paul

 

[paddab]

It has been raining all day and will be all day tomorrow so I have not had a chance to get in the hive, the swarm is still up in the tulip tree,its about 70' up on about a 8 inch wide branch so I could not even shake the branch if I could reach it. there is little activity with the weather beeing so nasty, but every now and then I see some bees going into both hives. is there something else hat I could have done to prevent this? we are trying to go into the hives once a week to check things out, but not sure if it should be so often, we were feeding once a week. we are also trying to get a local bee keeper to work with us and get some hands on experience with someone that we can bounce things off of and learn from, How long do they normaly hang out? i am assuming that the weather is keeping them there.Paul