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Swarm traps all quiet today despite the good weather (yesterday there was half a dozen scouts at each) so hopeful it’s worked 🤞

Remember what you did. You took the nuc away but in the same apiary so that all the foragers could fly back home.

I just expected that to happen today but I guess they left straight after the split yesterday…

They are the young nurse bees.

Checked the nuc today and looks to be plenty bees. Oddly there are no/very very few bees venturing out of the nuc today. All other hives...

Update to my update: QCs have been torn down and there is a queen up and laying, eggs and v young larvae present. She must have been...

Update: happily QC's have been built (the young larvae were from a colony with a GREAT queen), so fingers crossed they can recover 🤞🙂

There is no reason why it shouldn't work. I don't think there is much else you could do in the circumstances

That area,is generally where they add drone comb. Just a tip, if you leave a super on over winter, remove the queen excluder, the...

They are all swarm cells, I would take some action if I were you.

Already done, had to buy lots of granulated sugar to make syrup as I didn't have any. I had to feed quite a few of my nucs too.

19C!!! Inspected all my nucs, quick cursory glance at production hives. Drones in most. One nuc with capped supercedure QC. (Q seen last...

I’d feed them a little too if they’ve got no stores and been stuck in a tree for 10 days

I'd put it down next to the compost bin if it's only a few feet, they should find it. Then move it 2-3 feet every few days until it's...