Thats normal, all of the foragers will go back to the original hive. Put a feeder on the new hive (or both) to build back up to 2 hive bodies. Just keep doing routine inspections, if the new colony starts to look weak just shake nurse bees off of a brood frame into it to keep things balanced. But the first thing you need to do is to check both hives on Thursday and see which one has eggs and if the other started queen cells so you know where the queen is. If you do once a week inspections you'll get more comfortable with it and learn to catch problems early. If you find the queen in the original location you can just switch them, that way the queenless colony will get the foragers it will need.We went out to look at the hives. The old one is very active. The new one... not. I did see a couple of bees come out, and I did hear buzzing when I put my ear down by the entrance.
Great!In my Mann Lake order, I got a varroa check washing cup.
Apivar should take care of that, leave the 2 strips in for 6 weeks.When we peeked inside, we set the top box on an upside down lid on the ground. When we put it back, we saw plenty of mites. That's what had fallen off the bees. I counted 8.
Im sure you did. The critical mite count is at the end of July beginning of August. Thats when the colony starts to raise winter bees. Your off to a great start! You've done more than some new beekeepers do in their first couple years.I'm really that we have treated in time to save them. We put in 2 Apivar strips in each hive.