{"id":37714,"date":"2022-06-13T10:40:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T09:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=37714"},"modified":"2022-06-13T10:40:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T09:40:49","slug":"apiary-manipulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/06\/apiary-manipulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Apiary Manipulations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a nice night away with Anna I decided to take a quick look at the bees. It had only been 5 days since I\u2019d last inspected them but it\u2019s prime swarm season so it\u2019s good to keep an eye on them.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Leri Hive<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The first hive, Leri, was all looking good. They have a single super at the moment which is half full of honey. They haven\u2019t started to cap the frames yet though.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spotted the Queen straight away. 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I checked her frame to make sure there were no Queen cells on it and moved it to a third (empty) hive that was waiting nearby. This box containing the Queen and the frame she was on has now been moved back to where she was in the first place. It\u2019s in the same location and has the same Queen in it so I\u2019m still calling it Clettwr.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although this hive now has just a single frame of bees, the flying bees should return to it and bolster the numbers. I did also give it a couple of frames of honey too. Hopefully this will encourage them to stay put &#8211; somehow I doubt it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dyfi Hive<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The remainder of the bees from Clettwr were then moved to a new location in a hive now called Dyfi. It has the double brood box of Clettwr with all of the brood, all of the nurse bees and all of the Queen cells. It also has the original super. 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