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I moved the 2nd swarm last night to a 10-frame hive. After 6 days in the swarm trap they were storing pollen and there was some capped honey. They are drawing comb and the queen is laying eggs and we saw a few larvae. So far, so good.

I appreciate the advice Wally. I will wait to the first of the week to move the Horneytown swarm. They were going in and out good all day today. The swarm I moved yesterday seem to be getting used to their new home and bringing in more pollen.

Wally, I did not see your post until this morning.I moved the Summerfield swarm last night. We saw them bringing in some pollen yesterday and thought that was a good sign. There is a good 2 1/2 frames of bees. They had completely went over the Brood frame and cleaned out all the dead material. It ap...

Got a call on Tuesday that bees were very active at a swarm trap in Horneytown. That evening I got a call about a lot of activity in a swarm trap in Summerfield. Both traps seem to have a good number of bees in each. Plan is to move one this evening and the other on Friday evening. After missing a s...

Pulled the lid off this evening and the trap is completely empty. After all the activity for a week and a half there is no sign that they ever attempted to build any comb. I guess they found better accommodations elsewhere!

Thanks, I will get them moved soon.

Thanks for the reply. I built the swarm boxes with 3 Nuc supers and deep frames. The spacing with the 5 frames are good. It has about 4 1/2 inches of open space between the bottom of the frames and the bottom of the box.

From the activity going on at one of my swarm traps it appears a swarm has taken up residence. There has been a lot of activity since last Wednesday. How long would you wait to open the trap to check things out? The trap is made up of 3 Nuc supers with 5 deep frames in it. If there is a good swarm i...