soarwitheagles
True BYH Addict
Hi all!
During our weekly inspection time, we discovered two of our six beehives apparently queenless [could not find any queen, but more important, no eggs, no larvae at all]. These eggless and larveless hives did have lots of honey, pollen, and bees.
Both of these hives were split off from healthy hives about one month ago, VSH bees were introduced at that time.
Yesterday, after seeing no queen, no eggs, and no larvae, we decided to "steal" four frames of fresh larvae, eggs, honey, pollen etc. from our healthy queen right hives and place two of each of the frames in the queenless hives. We did shake off the bees before transferring the frames to the queenless hives...
Not so sure we did the right thing.
Did we get it right or should we have done something else?
Please give us some good advice or suggestions.
Thanks!
PS We recently purchased Mannlake's queen making kits and I hope to begin making some queens/nucs in the near future to cover disasters like this...
During our weekly inspection time, we discovered two of our six beehives apparently queenless [could not find any queen, but more important, no eggs, no larvae at all]. These eggless and larveless hives did have lots of honey, pollen, and bees.
Both of these hives were split off from healthy hives about one month ago, VSH bees were introduced at that time.
Yesterday, after seeing no queen, no eggs, and no larvae, we decided to "steal" four frames of fresh larvae, eggs, honey, pollen etc. from our healthy queen right hives and place two of each of the frames in the queenless hives. We did shake off the bees before transferring the frames to the queenless hives...
Not so sure we did the right thing.
Did we get it right or should we have done something else?
Please give us some good advice or suggestions.
Thanks!
PS We recently purchased Mannlake's queen making kits and I hope to begin making some queens/nucs in the near future to cover disasters like this...