fox403
House Bee
- Joined
- Jul 4, 2010
- Messages
- 188
- Reaction score
- 0
- Location
- northumberland
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 5
hi all,,, ok set up my hive at the end of august hoping with luck I might have gained a late swarm as I no I have a wild colony about 200 yards away so I put plenty sugar out for them which got them interested had 100 plus checking the hive out but they didn’t take residence ... so my plan isss for next march I’m going stick out 3-4 bait hives ...one I place up a tree were I saw them swarm to last year (as I heard they sometime return to same spots ?) next ill take down by the river a load start early year feeding... now next one I was thinking of putting just outside from where the wild colony are hoping they will might move in,,,u guys with lots hives next to each other what’s the % if u had an empty hive next to productive hives that they will move in ? cheers james