BVR>From: Bill Van Roekel <[log in to unmask]> >To: Multiple recipients of list BEE-L <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 09:34:16 -0400 >Subject: Re: Swarming BVR>>Make up the divide as above, add the queen, making sure the cork is out >>of the candy hole. Place the queen between two frames of brood below the >>wood top bar, candy hole down at a angle to the brood combs to BVR>Although I've never seen it happen, I've been cautioned to put the candy >hole up in case the nurse bees in the cage die, they will not block the hol >preventing the queen's release. If you check the hive in a week or two as >Andy suggests, this would not be a problem since you would discover it and >either release the queen directly or clear the hole. However, you may miss >a few days of laying, especially if you can't get back to your hive for awh >Roekel To each his own. If I had my druthers I would not instal any queen with worker bees so that would not be a problem, but realize that many here can not purchase them in bulk packages or do not rear their own and removing the attendants in a queen cage can be done but much care must be given to keeping the queen from flying away or being injured. The idea of having the candy hole down was to prevent it from being flooded with honey if a beekeeper or his helper does not notice and pushes the cage into some nice fat comb filled with honey, many times a problem here in a good spring flow with unskilled help. Beekeeping has never been a avocation that one could follow the text book rules as every hive is an individual and few can read the books anyway so up or down makes little difference as long as the queen get out without injury. --- ~ QMPro 1.53 ~ ... Where bee-hives range on a gray bench in the garden,