tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25751489.post5788756156727520339..comments2024-01-08T14:49:20.153-07:00Comments on Becky's Bees & Blooms: Swarm update: May 20th, 2007BeeGoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02756539381427342740noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25751489.post-34269654616211802042007-12-22T18:36:00.000-07:002007-12-22T18:36:00.000-07:00Hi Becky,Enjoyed reading your blog on bee activiti...Hi Becky,<BR/><BR/>Enjoyed reading your blog on bee activities. My now 12 year old daughter and I have been doing 4H beekeeping for two years now in northern Indiana.<BR/><BR/>I had my first swarm this past year. One of the local sages suggested when I hived the swarm to grab a frame of brood from a hive minus the bees. That in essence would serve as an "anchor" for the swarm since they are programmed not to abandon brood. <BR/><BR/>I did that with my hive that swarmed and it worked well. That "swarm" hive swarmed later in the year but alas the bees were too high in the tree to retrieve.<BR/><BR/>With regards to your honey harvest, etc. I have one suggestion that you might try. I noticed that your queen excluder was above both deeps. Next year when it comes time to put the honey supers on you might try putting all the open brood in the upper deep and the capped brood in the bottom deep along with the queen. The queen excluder then goes between the two deeps. With the open brood in the top box the workers are forced to go through the excluder. <BR/><BR/>For a much better description you can read back articles by Henry Harris in the Bee Line at http://indianabeekeeper.goshen.edu/mba.htmlAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14661116313274365710noreply@blogger.com