For some reason my bees are crowded and it looks like they are beginning to think about swarming! They never built up the last three frames in the bottom box and only want to work in the center of the top box. So today, I opened them up and did a bit of shuffling of frames in the hopes that they will spread out a bit and work on filling up the remaining empty frames.
opening up the box
that’s a LOT of bees!
My queen is quite prolific! Look at all the brood she’s making…
I also scraped off a bit of burr comb before shutting it all back up…
I need to do whatever I can to keep that from happening! So on Wednesday, I’m going back in to hopefully find all the queen cells and get rid of them.
It still may not guarantee they won’t swarm, but here’s hoping and praying that they will stay put!
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We just went through this today!! I thought we had scored with a third hive, but am now thinking it may have been part of our original hive. The bees in the original look small and not as active as hive 2~maybe a new hatch? We didn't see the queen in there either. Our bees did the same thing as yours. Thankfully, they didn't go far so we were able to capture them. But I'm not sure what will happen to the original hive now. Hopefully yours will stay put!
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