. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Six Queens in a Swarm. [10663J I should be grateful if you would let me know through the " Journal " if i*. is about a record to find 6ix queens in a second swarm of ordinary size. I had decided to unite them with another small lot that I had. Fortunately, I had taken the precaution to put a piece of queen excluder in front of entrance, so if I should miss seeing the queen go up the board she could not get inside, as I was showing a nephew of mine (14 years old) how the two lots would take to one another with just a little f
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Six Queens in a Swarm. [10663J I should be grateful if you would let me know through the " Journal " if i*. is about a record to find 6ix queens in a second swarm of ordinary size. I had decided to unite them with another small lot that I had. Fortunately, I had taken the precaution to put a piece of queen excluder in front of entrance, so if I should miss seeing the queen go up the board she could not get inside, as I was showing a nephew of mine (14 years old) how the two lots would take to one another with just a little flour dusted over them. I soon saw the queen, and put her in a match- box ; then I saw three more going up, very nearly side by side, so I killed those. Then when most had gone in, I saw two more try- ing to get through the excluder, so caught them. The bees are Italians. I have kept bees over twenty years and have not had this experience before, but since taking the " Journal " for the last three years I find, through studying its contents, that I am just a novice.âC. Minton, Shrop- shire. [So far as we know the above is a record. âEds.] Driving Bees from Box Hives. [9940] Having received the offer of a number of condemned bees in the coming autumn, I promptly undertook to drive them and leave the combs for the owner. I now find they are in a number of overturned grocer's boxes, side by side on a bench, and [ feel I have let myself in for a somewhat awkward task. Could you give me any hints beyond those in the Guide Book on getting. the bees out of these boxes? Should I drive into a skep? If 60, how to fix it to a box. Will drumming be as effective as in the case of skep bees? There are about half-a-dozen lots to drive, and I want to join them all up into one, or possibly two, frame hives. The owner wants them left till the end of Septem- ber. Is not this very late? Any suggestions as to how to proceed will be very welcome.ââ A Absell. Reply.âThe difficulty
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