Hi everyone,
My wife and I just removed supers from two of our langstroth hives from Ontario Canada. We are third year beekeepers just gaining experience. One of the hives is a double brood chamber and the other is a single brood chamber.
Both had two supers that we removed yesterday.
Today went to check on them and the bees appear to have swarmed onto a nearby tree from the single brood box.
There was a significant amount of bees that we had to brush off of the supers from both but not sure what we should have done different to help prevent this? Maybe waited a little longer in the season to remove supers from the single brood box?
Thanks!
Graham
My wife and I just removed supers from two of our langstroth hives from Ontario Canada. We are third year beekeepers just gaining experience. One of the hives is a double brood chamber and the other is a single brood chamber.
Both had two supers that we removed yesterday.
Today went to check on them and the bees appear to have swarmed onto a nearby tree from the single brood box.
There was a significant amount of bees that we had to brush off of the supers from both but not sure what we should have done different to help prevent this? Maybe waited a little longer in the season to remove supers from the single brood box?
Thanks!
Graham