Only just seen this. If it is a simple job then now-ish as bees will need to fly and be gathered up by fanning workers into the travelling box ... then you'd like the great majority at home before you uplift.
So I'd reckon about an hour and a half before a major thunderstorm should be ideal!
I came, I saw, I bought!Originally Posted by Calum
Just installed 4 of Jon G's black queens and am anxiously waiting to see they're accepted by the splits they're in. I'm in the process of converting all of my colonies (21) to amm. just a case now of eliminating all the carniolans before the end of the year.
Good luck with the queens. Fingers crossed for a safe introduction.
It looks as though the splits have accepted the Q's - nice and quiet and have lost the queenless roar. I'll now leave them alone for a week or so. Thanks Jon for your quick service. I'll be in touch again soon.
Mating apiary trashed by badgers.
Mmmmmm - my beekeeping comment is sympathetic but I can not suggest what you might do. Will your post get a response to the badger eradication issue?
In a location managed by an environmental group on an 'almost' island where there are probably less than three cows I doubt that the local community will be rushing to cull badgers on my behalf, to be honest. Not that I'd want them to.
I'll just have to buy some telegraph poles this winter and mount the mating nucs on them (cut down to an appropriate height of course). One thing for sure, once they start on hives they're not inclined to stop -it's all in their name...
Sorry to hear that. Ours is fairly secure thanks to the efforts of colleagues rather than me. Drone colonies are behind a fence and mating nucs are up high on posts. We were fearing sheep trashing rather than badgers. The guys even built a stile so that the more corpulent bee breeder (that'll be me then) can get over in relative safety.
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