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hubertpilon New Bee
Joined: 17 Aug 2015 Posts: 7 Location: Québec, Canada
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Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 3:13 pm Post subject: need help late swarm in warré hive... |
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Hi,
It is my first warré hive. I live in Canada. My bees swarmed yesterday! There was a lot of room in hive (1 box full, 3 empty).
I'm surprised because it is the first year and so late in summer...
I catched the swarm, put in 2 warré box with floor and temporary roof...
What should I do now? Start a new hive, that late in summer, and should I feed them? Try reuniting the two halves?
If you have time to give me your opinion, it would help me a lot!
Long life to bees!
Hubert |
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rmcpb Scout Bee

Joined: 17 Jul 2011 Posts: 447 Location: Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia
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Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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I would lean toward recombining them BUT not too soon or they may just swarm again. Let the swarm stay in the temporary box for a few days to a week. Remove any queen cells from the original hive so they are queenless (it is getting too late to raise a queen anyway for you). Do a newspaper combine in six or seven days. When they settle down, another week, go in and arrange stores so they make sense, the bees may not have time to do this before your really cold weather starts and you don't want store split up in your winter.
Hope this helps
Rob. |
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hubertpilon New Bee
Joined: 17 Aug 2015 Posts: 7 Location: Québec, Canada
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 11:48 am Post subject: need help late swarm in warré hive... |
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thank you Rob!
Seems a good idea...
is it possible that the queen in old hive already born?
I see lots of drones in front of hive...
I am trying to avoid taking the frameless combs all out...
do I have to find her or queen cells absolutely or older queen will take over? |
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hubertpilon New Bee
Joined: 17 Aug 2015 Posts: 7 Location: Québec, Canada
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Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 11:56 am Post subject: need help late swarm in warré hive... |
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Thanks everyone for your opinion... |
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ingo50 Scout Bee
Joined: 30 May 2014 Posts: 311 Location: Newport, Gwent, Wales, UK
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Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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Hubert you may wish to join David Heaf's Warre yahoogroup forum, lots of very experienced Warreors who will be able to give good advice too. |
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