Besides obviously building comb blah blah blah.
Are there any signs that they like their new digs right away?
I went and grabbed a swarm today (went like text book), I placed it in a 8 medium with my vacuum's bottom (2.5" circle entrance and easy to seal) then placed a 8 medium with frames (foundationless) on top with my feeder cover on top (just a piece of plywood with a 2" hole cut in it for my bunt cake style feeder to fit in) all sealed up. Boom, placed it in, ratchet strapped it closed and left.
Got home and placed the feeder on top (they can't get out/in when it's on) but I didn't have a way to cover it up so I didn't put any syrup in it, just wanted to set it up. Opened the entrance up and a few flew around and checked things out.
My other hive is 3' away and solid.
So I got home just now 8pm and I went out to put in the syrup and put a cover over it all to prevent the desire for robbing from their neighbors. I saw a few bees on top of the frames, but nothing like when I hived up my original hive (but it was probably a 1.5 lbs vs 4-5 lbs that I had from before.
At this point I jammed my phone in as much as I could and shot some video. I noticed they were in the corner clustered up like a swarm. I went and grabbed my Flip camera and jammed it in there. I could see that they were all the way up the corner but still just up against the corner, balled up around the queen no doubt.
Now, I don't know what a swarm does when they first move in but I was assuming they would be hanging in the middle and starting to festoon to build comb. Are they possibly sitting around waiting to head out and not stay?
Are there any signs that they like their new digs right away?
I went and grabbed a swarm today (went like text book), I placed it in a 8 medium with my vacuum's bottom (2.5" circle entrance and easy to seal) then placed a 8 medium with frames (foundationless) on top with my feeder cover on top (just a piece of plywood with a 2" hole cut in it for my bunt cake style feeder to fit in) all sealed up. Boom, placed it in, ratchet strapped it closed and left.
Got home and placed the feeder on top (they can't get out/in when it's on) but I didn't have a way to cover it up so I didn't put any syrup in it, just wanted to set it up. Opened the entrance up and a few flew around and checked things out.
My other hive is 3' away and solid.
So I got home just now 8pm and I went out to put in the syrup and put a cover over it all to prevent the desire for robbing from their neighbors. I saw a few bees on top of the frames, but nothing like when I hived up my original hive (but it was probably a 1.5 lbs vs 4-5 lbs that I had from before.
At this point I jammed my phone in as much as I could and shot some video. I noticed they were in the corner clustered up like a swarm. I went and grabbed my Flip camera and jammed it in there. I could see that they were all the way up the corner but still just up against the corner, balled up around the queen no doubt.
Now, I don't know what a swarm does when they first move in but I was assuming they would be hanging in the middle and starting to festoon to build comb. Are they possibly sitting around waiting to head out and not stay?
