2024 04 29 Moving Bees and Adding a Ross Round Super

We caught this swarm about three weeks ago. We've already moved the bees into a 10-frame with the idea we would take it home for two weeks and return it.
Now the bees are a little defensive, and we won't get a new queen for another two weeks. So we are using the "2 feet" method rather than the "2 miles" method of moving a hive.
We've also decided to put our Ross Rounds super on this hive.
We have been keeping bees since 2016. We are hobbyist beekeepers who started out with 2 hives in our backyard. After about a year, we discovered how quickly a colony can become too defensive to be kept in a neighborhood. Now we've got our bees outside of town on 10 acres.
Even after 8 years, we consider ourselves as newbie beeks, and we learn new things every season. The videos are mostly for our own consumption, but if you are watching, you are welcome to watch and we hope you find them informative.
Paul & Kathy
P&K Beekeeping

[@HalfQuickFarmer]

cool to see the Queen march on in to the new home.

[@HalfQuickFarmer]

nice video.

[@PKBees]

Thanh you

[@steveholder7289]

Is that hive strong enough to do comb honey? Never done it myself but have bee told that you need them to almost a swarm levels to get them to do it efficiently,

[@PKBees]

Thanks for the comment. This was going to be an experiment. These were swarm bees, which we anticipate will work quickly. Thanks to your comment, I've reconsidered, and swapped the Ross Rounds with another hive's medium. While the bees may have been able to fill it up, our removing the super would have left them with very little.