Probably didn't get the queen.
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I started putting queen excluders at the entrance. You would think she is slimed down enough to get through them, but I have not lost one since I started using them. I leave them on for about 10 days.
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That is a great idea! Did you make that excluder? or buy?I started putting queen excluders at the entrance. You would think she is slimed down enough to get through them, but I have not lost one since I started using them. I leave them on for about 10 days.
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I had the same thing happen to me yesterday only I was in the bee yard when it happen 2 times and then they where gone.
All started like this the swarm was in the tree
So I got my ladder.
The swarm had 2 humps figuring 2 queens
So I grab my swarm bucket and shake the swarm into the bucket and hive it.
Then I look over at one of my production hive and there a small ball of bee's at the top entrance so I go over and take a look it's a queen so in my dopamine over flow from the swarm and now finding a queen I take her in my hands and try to put her in the hive I just hived the swarm . Well she got away disappeared just like that . As I'm standing there wondering what happen there she is on the ground so I grab her and sticker her in the hive again this time she comes back out and flys away after making a couple loops around the beeyard.
So I'm standing there in shock wondering if I could be a crappier beekeeper I decide to run up to the bank and maybe when I get back the queen may have back. Well I get back to the beeyard and in the swarm bucket is a swarm so I get another deep and set it up dump the bee's and close her up.
So I start looking into the hive's to see who may of swarmed . I walked over to the first swarm I hived and lifted the lid and the swarm was gone. I was in disbelief . So I go back to digging in some hives and I look over at my swarm bucket and it's filled with bee's again :scratch: so look in the hive with the second swarm in and sure enough no bees . SO I get down on all 4 and look in the swarm bucket to see if I can see the queen and there she is dancing on top all the bees so I grab a queen cage and sticker in side the put her in the hive and then dumps the bees in . Well by the time I was done looking trough my hives there was only 20 bees on the cage and no bee's left in the hive . So my bee's sure did make me the fool.
Had of been more then one queen.
Now I have a queen I don't know what to do with any idea's?
The hives I dumped them in both had comb and alittle honey so I don't know.
All started like this the swarm was in the tree
So I got my ladder.
The swarm had 2 humps figuring 2 queens
So I grab my swarm bucket and shake the swarm into the bucket and hive it.
Then I look over at one of my production hive and there a small ball of bee's at the top entrance so I go over and take a look it's a queen so in my dopamine over flow from the swarm and now finding a queen I take her in my hands and try to put her in the hive I just hived the swarm . Well she got away disappeared just like that . As I'm standing there wondering what happen there she is on the ground so I grab her and sticker her in the hive again this time she comes back out and flys away after making a couple loops around the beeyard.
So I'm standing there in shock wondering if I could be a crappier beekeeper I decide to run up to the bank and maybe when I get back the queen may have back. Well I get back to the beeyard and in the swarm bucket is a swarm so I get another deep and set it up dump the bee's and close her up.
So I start looking into the hive's to see who may of swarmed . I walked over to the first swarm I hived and lifted the lid and the swarm was gone. I was in disbelief . So I go back to digging in some hives and I look over at my swarm bucket and it's filled with bee's again :scratch: so look in the hive with the second swarm in and sure enough no bees . SO I get down on all 4 and look in the swarm bucket to see if I can see the queen and there she is dancing on top all the bees so I grab a queen cage and sticker in side the put her in the hive and then dumps the bees in . Well by the time I was done looking trough my hives there was only 20 bees on the cage and no bee's left in the hive . So my bee's sure did make me the fool.
Had of been more then one queen.
Now I have a queen I don't know what to do with any idea's?
The hives I dumped them in both had comb and alittle honey so I don't know.
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