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I have a wonderful video from a festival we were at a few years ago where the bees were in a ball under a table. A bee keeper arrived, put a cardboard box under
by aidos 7y ago
I have a wonderful video from a festival we were at a few years ago where the bees were in a ball under a table. A bee keeper arrived, put a cardboard box underneath and gave the table a thud. The queen fell into the box and the rest followed. They were standing on the box doing a funny little pointy thing of the direction to fly in. He said that it was the hive splitting by producing a second queen. Apparently they set up a temporary home for a couple of days while scouting for a good place to establish themselves. It was insane how much of a wax honeycomb nest they had already created.
- lostlogin 7y agoIt’s excellent to watch. A big swarm has enough honey onboard to fill 2-3 full depth boxes. I’ve caught some big ones, but a full box in a week is my record. It’s good to let them and not to help or give them frames. Getting them to make wax gets all the honey out of them as this honey can contain American Foulbrood spores. Locking it up in wax is lower risk than having them feed it to young larvae.