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[JP33]

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Could be she had more than one queen in the swarm, could have the mated and a virgin and the virgins' on the exterior. I would go through the clump of bees and look.

Do you know if they combined the swarm with an existing colony?

Without knowing every little last detail, the possibilities are many.

Missi, I live ten miles west of New Orleans.


...JP

 

[NonnasBabies]

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Was just wondering cause there's a man in Central that does exactly what you do!!

Very neat stuff by the way. Amazing pictures!!

Missi

 

[PotterWatch]

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Could be she had more than one queen in the swarm, could have the mated and a virgin and the virgins' on the exterior. I would go through the clump of bees and look.

Do you know if they combined the swarm with an existing colony?

Without knowing every little last detail, the possibilities are many.

Missi, I live ten miles west of New Orleans.


...JP

The details as I know them are just that there was an unwanted swarm in a tree branch and they moved the bees to a nuc. They were in the nuc for a couple days before they moved them to the hive. Most have stayed in the hive just fine but this group started congregating at the top. She didn't combine them, she is just starting out and these are her first bees. If there is another queen in there, which I tend to think there is, should she move that group to another hive or take away that queen or what?

 

[JP33]

Quote:
Could be she had more than one queen in the swarm, could have the mated and a virgin and the virgins' on the exterior. I would go through the clump of bees and look.

Do you know if they combined the swarm with an existing colony?

Without knowing every little last detail, the possibilities are many.

Missi, I live ten miles west of New Orleans.


...JP

The details as I know them are just that there was an unwanted swarm in a tree branch and they moved the bees to a nuc. They were in the nuc for a couple days before they moved them to the hive. Most have stayed in the hive just fine but this group started congregating at the top. She didn't combine them, she is just starting out and these are her first bees. If there is another queen in there, which I tend to think there is, should she move that group to another hive or take away that queen or what?

If the exterior cluster had a queen they may have either left by now or she could have been balled and killed, who knows.

I would need to go into the colony and do a thorough inspection to determine the next move, but I would assume by now, things should be in order.


...JP

 

[Kim_1970]

I've heard on the news lately that bees are dying off... whole colonies.
Are you experiencing this? What do you think is causing it.
It scares me to think about because bees are so important to the crops, flowers... world!

 

[JP33]

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http://rs.resalliance.org/2010/01/09/colony-collapse-disorder-a-loss-of-resilience/

I am not experiencing it. No one knows for certain the exact cause.


...JP

 

[JP33]

This was yesterday:

...JP

 

[NonnasBabies]

OMG that is so amazing!!

Missi

 

[GlitterBug]

Wow, those pictures are incredible! What an interesting and unusual job you have.

 

[eac04]

This is pretty neat! Really amazing to see all the work you do.

Thanks for sharing with the rest of us that run and hide at the first sight of a bee...