Its all happening now!
My lovely quiet hive 1 had a sealed queen cell and the bees were tetchy on inspection! About 7 full frames of sealed brood and I didn't have a spare brood box so decided to bite the bullet and rejoin hive 2 which is 8 days after split.
I smoked them (and me) and put back the sealed brood I had placed downstairs with two other frames of clean drawn comb and placed in top box with queen! Kept on puffing and shook flying bees off to wait their turn to rejoin hive!
Hopefully they haven't murdered her, almost past caring at this point so I took snelgrove board and now empty brood box and did a snelgrove 2 adapted method on hive 1!
It was like musical chairs! I put super back on top box instead of bottom one AGAIN, but it didn't seem to matter too much last time! What I don't want now is hive 2 starting more swarm cells...............
My lovely quiet hive 1 had a sealed queen cell and the bees were tetchy on inspection! About 7 full frames of sealed brood and I didn't have a spare brood box so decided to bite the bullet and rejoin hive 2 which is 8 days after split.
I smoked them (and me) and put back the sealed brood I had placed downstairs with two other frames of clean drawn comb and placed in top box with queen! Kept on puffing and shook flying bees off to wait their turn to rejoin hive!
Hopefully they haven't murdered her, almost past caring at this point so I took snelgrove board and now empty brood box and did a snelgrove 2 adapted method on hive 1!
It was like musical chairs! I put super back on top box instead of bottom one AGAIN, but it didn't seem to matter too much last time! What I don't want now is hive 2 starting more swarm cells...............