How do you conduct swarm control when you don’t have a Scooby 2 where the queen is in the colony? The post today is going to deal with the second situation. There’s a real risk of leaving the parental colony queenless, which is probably not your intention.
when you are removing frames, brood and bees from the colony – for example, when making up nucleus coloniesįrankly, you probably shouldn’t be doing the first of these if you don’t know where the queen is. The two obvious times it helps to know exactly where the queen are: I’m not going to discuss ways to help find the queen as I’ve written about it before and refer you there for starters. Notwithstanding the surety these four signs provide about the presence of the queen, they still don’t help you (or me 😉 ) find her.Īnd, for a few colony manipulations, it’s really helpful to find the queen. Individually, each of those observations isn’t a certain way of determining the queen status of the colony, but together they’re pretty-much a nailed-on certainty. Then I’m 99% certain there is a queen present and everything is OK 1. Whenever I do routine inspections I like to see the queen, but I don’t look for her. Many beekeepers struggle to routinely find the queen, particularly in a very busy colony.įor 90% of the beekeeping season whether you find the queen or not is irrelevant … you can tell if she’s present because there are eggs in the colony (so she must have laid them in the last 3 days) and, often, because the colony is well-tempered.
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