Ripley's believe it or not
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 3:21 pm
This afternoon I walked out on my back porch just in time to see the sky filled with bees. I watched until they started settling, I thought in my grapevine, until, on closer inspection, I discovered they had moved in with the swarm I caught in High Point yesterday. Since I had put a queen excluder between the bottom board and the hive body to keep the queen from leaving, I knew the swarm queen couldn't get in. I lifted the hive and picked up the excluder and sure enough, the swarm queen was right there. I set her on the entrance and she went right in. I have never heard of a swarm taking over an inhabited hive. I am just waiting now to see if one queen gets killed, the swarm leaves again, or it becomes a two queen hive.
Anyone with a past experience, ideas, notions, or other comments, please post. This has me completely baffeled.
Wally
Anyone with a past experience, ideas, notions, or other comments, please post. This has me completely baffeled.
Wally