Hello all!
I inspected my hive today and found it completely filled with honey.
I thought everything was going great as there is heavy traffic in and out of the hive.
My second deep was full of honey and I thought the queen just hadn't made it upstairs yet.
When I looked at the first deep today I found it full of honey as well (no brood or sign of a queen).
I marked my queen when I installed her and when I checked two weeks ago she was producing fine and the colony was growing.
I don't know what to do about this. This is my first hive.
I am a member of my local beekeeping club but it's a hundred miles from me and I don't have a beek mentor in my area.
My local(?) eqiupment supplier where I ordered my package and hive is 150 miles away from me and only open when I am at work. I took the day off work to pick up my package.
I'll call around and see I can find someone closer who can sell me a queen. If not, it'll have to be mail order.
I don't know what to do with a new queen since both deeps are filled with honey (no room for brood). I guess I have to get a new hive body as well.
I feel bad for not inspecting last week. I've enjoyed watching hundreds of bees come and go in my clover field; I thought everything was going well.
I put on a shallow super with that Bee-O-Pac thing over a queen excluder but they have rejected it.
I'm wishing I started two hives as many had suggested but my financial advisor disapproved my funding request...
And now I'm looking at the expense of a new queen and possibly more equipment potentially affecting where I sleep...
But I digress, back to my question:
What do you reccomend I do with a single queenless hive with two deeps full of honey and limited access to equipment?
I think I'm queenless. Is it possible she's on a break?
THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!
I want to be like you!
I inspected my hive today and found it completely filled with honey.
I thought everything was going great as there is heavy traffic in and out of the hive.
My second deep was full of honey and I thought the queen just hadn't made it upstairs yet.
When I looked at the first deep today I found it full of honey as well (no brood or sign of a queen).
I marked my queen when I installed her and when I checked two weeks ago she was producing fine and the colony was growing.
I don't know what to do about this. This is my first hive.
I am a member of my local beekeeping club but it's a hundred miles from me and I don't have a beek mentor in my area.
My local(?) eqiupment supplier where I ordered my package and hive is 150 miles away from me and only open when I am at work. I took the day off work to pick up my package.
I'll call around and see I can find someone closer who can sell me a queen. If not, it'll have to be mail order.
I don't know what to do with a new queen since both deeps are filled with honey (no room for brood). I guess I have to get a new hive body as well.
I feel bad for not inspecting last week. I've enjoyed watching hundreds of bees come and go in my clover field; I thought everything was going well.
I put on a shallow super with that Bee-O-Pac thing over a queen excluder but they have rejected it.
I'm wishing I started two hives as many had suggested but my financial advisor disapproved my funding request...
And now I'm looking at the expense of a new queen and possibly more equipment potentially affecting where I sleep...
But I digress, back to my question:
What do you reccomend I do with a single queenless hive with two deeps full of honey and limited access to equipment?
I think I'm queenless. Is it possible she's on a break?
THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!
I want to be like you!