The huge colony that I took from Stockton has only been in the hive for 2 weeks. They had been in the wall for only a couple of days when I extracted them and were so big, I had to use 2 hive bodies to get all the bees in. So with 2 deep hives full of bees and 10 frames in each box, I thought about just splitting them right there and giving one a frame of brood to raise a queen. At first, this hive appeared a lot more aggressive than my other hives too, that did concern me, but I figured maybe they were just mad cause I just evicted them from their last place. I went to check on them yesterday. Smoked them a little less than properly to see how they would do, they did great. The only problem I had with the inspection was that all 20 frames were drawn out and full of everything we want to see except for the 6 swarm cells on the bottom of 5 frames. Two weeks and they filled out and up 2 deep hives? Dang, should have split them when I had a chance. After getting some new rubber on my GSX-R, I will be going out and finding the queen of the hive and putting her in a new hive and maybe do 1 more split out of that hive to catch up with it. I guess I better check that hive in a week to see if I need another body placed on it. Anyone else ever have something like this?
Craig
Craig
