Multiple Swarms?
Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 12:13 pm
So, how many times can a hive swarm? We had two hives until late March when one of them swarmed. We captured it and had three hives. Then Easter Sunday the other original hive swarmed, we captured that, and now we have 4 hives.
Last week we saw another swarm (can't figure out which hive it came from) but it was too high up and it left. Now today, there's yet another swarm way up high in another Poplar.
Hubby just checked all four hives on Wednesday and didn't see any signs of swarming, but then, we don't exactly have a great track record of being able to predict a swarm!
After the first two swarms we added supers and we don't have queen excluders on.
Are we just really bad beekeepers or are we great swarm magnets? Could these two recent swarms be from the new hives or the old hives or from someone else (or even wild?)
Last week we saw another swarm (can't figure out which hive it came from) but it was too high up and it left. Now today, there's yet another swarm way up high in another Poplar.
Hubby just checked all four hives on Wednesday and didn't see any signs of swarming, but then, we don't exactly have a great track record of being able to predict a swarm!
After the first two swarms we added supers and we don't have queen excluders on.
Are we just really bad beekeepers or are we great swarm magnets? Could these two recent swarms be from the new hives or the old hives or from someone else (or even wild?)