First year I have had this method fail (original method as described in the book)
Failed on 3 hives total of which I re-snelgroved them all and reset. All done exact, done many times and always has worked.
One colony was successful on the second attempt, one colony killed the queen when putting her back in the bottom box (never seen that before as they had the same scent) one failed for a second time as I found a few charged QCS below after returning the queen.
Anyone else having some issues with swarm manipulations this year? I'm wondering if spring was just to good here. Share your experience if you have also had this method fail and maybe reasons.
Failed on 3 hives total of which I re-snelgroved them all and reset. All done exact, done many times and always has worked.
One colony was successful on the second attempt, one colony killed the queen when putting her back in the bottom box (never seen that before as they had the same scent) one failed for a second time as I found a few charged QCS below after returning the queen.
Anyone else having some issues with swarm manipulations this year? I'm wondering if spring was just to good here. Share your experience if you have also had this method fail and maybe reasons.