On Wed one of the hives I started last year must have swarmed as quite close to my hive area there was a huge cloud of bees that settled on a tree branch. Once they settled we cut the branch and hived them along with a frame of open brood in a deep box. I moved them to the hive yard and gave them some sugar syrup.
They seemed content with their new digs.
On Fri there was a small tight cluster of bees on a plastic milk crate in the area the Wed swarm had been. There were also lots of bees flying around the clustered bees. I put a nuc nearby...had no open brood just wax frames...and they marched in and said we are home. By evening the bees were no longer in the air. I moved the nuc into the bee yard and the bees seem to have settled in.
So this morning I go out and more bees are gathering in my daughters yard....she is not impressed that my bees have favoured her yard. I put out another nuc with more undrawn wax foundation.
What is going on here?
They seemed content with their new digs.
On Fri there was a small tight cluster of bees on a plastic milk crate in the area the Wed swarm had been. There were also lots of bees flying around the clustered bees. I put a nuc nearby...had no open brood just wax frames...and they marched in and said we are home. By evening the bees were no longer in the air. I moved the nuc into the bee yard and the bees seem to have settled in.
So this morning I go out and more bees are gathering in my daughters yard....she is not impressed that my bees have favoured her yard. I put out another nuc with more undrawn wax foundation.
What is going on here?