Posts Tagged “Spring swarming”
This weekend has been about swarm management, where I split the colony into a main hive, and a nucleus. Spring has brought some lovely weather – in fact I think is now officially summer (hurrah), and with this warm weather the bees want to grow new queens. Its a good sign of colony strength, so its a welcomed […]
There’s some simple maths for queen bees in beehives. In general for a healthy colony you need more than 0, and less than 2. They truly are a special and important part of a honey bee colony. In Spring, the number of bees within a hive grows very fast. Sometimes, the colony also decides to grow […]
Sadly when the bees swarmed last weekend, collected and put back in the box, the queen was lost. I can’t be certain how she was lost, but this is no time for mourning. The important thing now she’s gone is to get a queen into the hive. There are a few methods to re-queen a […]
Saturday was a mixed bag for me. After a demoralising thumping 4-2 by relegated Reading over Fulham, I wanted to see how the bees were doing with the Snelgrove board. My first impressions were how calm the bees were. “This Snelgrove board is really doing the trick”, I proudly thought to myself. Then I realised how […]