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Your thoughts and advice are greatly appreciated.
My lone hive swarmed last weekend. I got lucky and caught the swarm and they seem to be sticking around. I inspected the first hive on Saturday after catching the swarm and found a lot of bees still in there. There was quite a lot of capped and uncapped brood and plenty of stores. It is 2 deeps. Most all of the frames were drawn out and full. I added a honey super. I robbed one frame of capped and one frame of uncapped brood and two frames of food and put in the swarm hive.
There were 15 or more swarm cells, a few of which were destroyed when I removed the frame as they were tied to the lower chamber. 2 or 3 were empty. The rest were capped. I didn't do anything other than inspect. Should I or can I go back in and take some of the capped queen cells out to prevent afterswarms? Or is there anything else I should do?
Thanks for all the help.
Here's a video of the swarm capture:
My lone hive swarmed last weekend. I got lucky and caught the swarm and they seem to be sticking around. I inspected the first hive on Saturday after catching the swarm and found a lot of bees still in there. There was quite a lot of capped and uncapped brood and plenty of stores. It is 2 deeps. Most all of the frames were drawn out and full. I added a honey super. I robbed one frame of capped and one frame of uncapped brood and two frames of food and put in the swarm hive.
There were 15 or more swarm cells, a few of which were destroyed when I removed the frame as they were tied to the lower chamber. 2 or 3 were empty. The rest were capped. I didn't do anything other than inspect. Should I or can I go back in and take some of the capped queen cells out to prevent afterswarms? Or is there anything else I should do?
Thanks for all the help.
Here's a video of the swarm capture: