beeno
Queen Bee
- Joined
- Apr 25, 2011
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- Location
- South East
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 5
Hi all,
Thought I try some late matings this year, as I had two nucs to spare and really should have less bees in my garden, and as the long range forecast promised a warm September. Did not have many drones myself, but they were flying and with 240 apiaries in a 10km radius I might be lucky. I wasn't as far as I could determine and was running out of time for winter preps.
One colony eggless since end of July, two test frames later and one introduced QC, I united with an A/S queen with brood over travel screen for a few days and then newspaper. Now has beautiful worker brood. Be interesting to open up come spring, but I will be surprised to find an unmarked queen.
The other one I united above a super full of stores (deep) which I don't normally do, but since the bees are quite feisty this autumn I decided on a slow unite. It would appear that both colonies have moved into super and are chomping through the stores which hopefully is a sign that they are brooding. No collateral damage on the unites.
Did anyone succeed in late matings on this forum as I noticed some hanging in there earlier on on the BBKA website.
Thought I try some late matings this year, as I had two nucs to spare and really should have less bees in my garden, and as the long range forecast promised a warm September. Did not have many drones myself, but they were flying and with 240 apiaries in a 10km radius I might be lucky. I wasn't as far as I could determine and was running out of time for winter preps.
One colony eggless since end of July, two test frames later and one introduced QC, I united with an A/S queen with brood over travel screen for a few days and then newspaper. Now has beautiful worker brood. Be interesting to open up come spring, but I will be surprised to find an unmarked queen.
The other one I united above a super full of stores (deep) which I don't normally do, but since the bees are quite feisty this autumn I decided on a slow unite. It would appear that both colonies have moved into super and are chomping through the stores which hopefully is a sign that they are brooding. No collateral damage on the unites.
Did anyone succeed in late matings on this forum as I noticed some hanging in there earlier on on the BBKA website.
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