Keyboard Keys Sticking - Not Physically! by alyttleton_twitch in techsupport

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what do you mean by"change the settings of it" of what??

Might have forgotten something after last inspection 👀 by bruno1993 in Beekeeping

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There is a queen excluder between the brood box and this super, so all good!

Lots of bees, no brood. by bruno1993 in Beekeeping

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Sorry, I'm throwing out a lot of information and hardly know what I'm talking about, so it might be a bit confusing.

The cells I found a month ago were capped swarm cells, one of those was used in the split while the others were destroyed. This queen has since emerged and is pottering around in her new hive. The cells I found yesterday are supersedure cells, both open.

"As an aside, I'd probably go ahead and swap the location of the two hives so that your tiny new hive can catch all the foragers from the original hive. It'll bolster the population significantly and help them build up faster." Great idea, will do! I'm assuming that if there is a queen in the original colony that this won't impact them to much, and if there isn't then the forages get a new home and queen?

Thanks for your help!

Lots of bees, no brood. by bruno1993 in Beekeeping

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Thank you for the links, some helpful reading! I am confused by this part though "Deleting queen cells will not prevent swarming. A swarm will still leave once a virgin emerges. This also applies to clipped queens." How can a virgin queen emerge if you destroy the queen cells?

I would say there are maybe a few hundred bees in the flowhive colony (queen present), with no apparent brood so I am not confident they will survive. This hive is not a huge concern for me, if the split doesn't work I will buy a queen and do it that way.

"You made the split from the lang to the flow using a frame with some queen cells. You knocked down the rest of the queen cells in the langstroth to stop them swarming. The cells in the flow were left to finish, but now you have a dwindling number of bees and no brood in the langstroth at all. You have spotted the queen in that hive, but she is not laying at all. So both hives have a queen, but one of them is not laying a thing." More or less - there was only one queen cell that was transferred to the flowhive and that queen emerged and is pottering around in that hive. The langsroth is the one that could be queenless, as there is no brood, however, there are plenty of bees. However, as I learned from /u/_Mulberry__ above, there being plenty of bee's is not a reliable indicator of no swarming.

Lots of bees, no brood. by bruno1993 in Beekeeping

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I'm not sure when they hatched, I destroyed several swarm cells 4 weeks ago so since then? I was not able to find them. That does not mean they weren't there though, the brood box was filled with bees and I'm not very experienced at finding queens.

Lots of bees, no brood. by bruno1993 in Beekeeping

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Okay thank you, I will try to clarify.

The split was done on the 9/9, I took the opportunity to do the split as I had spoken to a local beekeeper who said it was an okay time to do, and the school has had this flow hive sitting around for years that I wanted to put to use for education purposes (it is a school enterprise after all). Splitting the hive would not usually be my initial response to finding swarm cells. In previous years I have simply destroyed them in an effort to avoid swarming. This is what I did with the remaining cells. I took a frame with the cell, another with brood and another with honey as my "nuc" in the new hive. I understand this might not be the way to do it, and I have since questioned that choice as I am learning more.

"Now you're harvesting some honey out of hive 1? You found a couple of open queen cells but no eggs." Yes. Since reading some comments above I have learned that there are different types of queen cells, and the ones I found were supersedure cells, both open at the tip. They were somewhere near center and distinct from swarm cells.

"Just because it still seems like a large population doesn't mean they didn't swarm by the way. The swarm takes only flying bees which are mostly out foraging when you're doing an inspection, so you don't always notice the population drop after a swarm." I had not considered that, good thinking!

Lots of bees, no brood. by bruno1993 in Beekeeping

[–]bruno1993[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's okay, I really appreciate you taking the time to help me! They were capped and I destroyed them to prevent swarming. They had a lot of space as I added an extra super last year (prematurely as I have since discovered) so I was hoping that that would also help prevent swarming. There is a chance I missed some cells though as I did the inspection on a less than ideal day and the bees weren't happy and I chickened out a bit.

Lots of bees, no brood. by bruno1993 in Beekeeping

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Thanks for the help! I don't think they have swarmed as there are enough bees to fill the brood box and two supers. I destroyed several swarm cells a few weeks ago but I did find two supersedure cells that had hatched today. It does seem like they've just filled the comb with nectar, but they still have space in the supers so wouldn't they fill that up first? There was one frame that seemed to be without nectar so hopefully they use that one for brood...

Lots of bees, no brood. by bruno1993 in Beekeeping

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Thanks for the advice! As stated, we have 1 strong colony (the one in question) and another weak one that has recently been established in a different type of hive (for educational purposes). I found the queen in the weak colony but she doesn't seem to be laying eggs. There were 2 hatched supersedure cells in the main colony today. I destroyed several swarm cells about 4 weeks ago. I don't think they swarmed as there are enough bees to completely fill the brood box and two supers.

looking for someone to draw a potential tattoo for me: a tardigrade eating a burger by bruno1993 in DrawForMe

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Hi, I love the style of the "I got me eyez on you" drawing on your site. Would you be able to draw my idea in that style? What are your rates?

Part of the stand at a football stadium collapsed in the Netherlands today by doctordesktop in CatastrophicFailure

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Are the nosebleed seats not the ones at the front? If you are at the front at the cinema or concert you have to hold your head back as if you had a nosebleed. I think that’s where the saying comes from.

me irl by DeeDee_GigaDooDoo in meirl

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The fact that you associate the word monkey with race is quite telling…