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I really like this method and use it regularly:
> -How do you place a whole frame horizontally in the
> hive. I assume this
> requires some sort of extra gadget..?
4 stones about 2 cm in diameter. Or better, cut slots
into the empty box that will suspend the frame
horizontally over the frames in the box below.
> -Do you have to place the frame in the middle of the
> hive (between brood
> boxes and supers), or will this work just as well in
> the top part of the
> hive?
On top, above the top brood box, over the frames. This
frame is placed horizontally in an empty box with a
roof above. The frames just below should have pollen.
> -What happens with the upper part of the horizontal
> frame? Do the bees
> remove the larva there?
No, don't worry about it. You are interested in the
queen cells.
> -Don't you get a lot of burr comb around the cells?
No.
> -Why do you remove the cells right after they're
> capped and not the day
> before they hatch?
Don't let one hatch and kill the others.
> -When you remove a frame with this many cells, of
> course it takes a while to
> cut them all out and go around and place them in all
> those colonies. How do
> you store the cut out cells during this time to make
> sure there is no
> temperature och motion related damage to them?
Cut one out and lay the frame back on the hive where
it was, drape with a cloth, install it, then come back
and repeat. Be careful, use your pocket knife heated
with your cigarette lighter to cut out the queencells.
> -When the bees build comb on a queen cell, is the
> cell still OK if i cut
> away the unwanted wax?
Just cut around the queen cell.
It works great, is an easy way to get a bunch of good
cells without any grafting or special equipment. Look
for beekeeping techniques like this that are LOW COST,
LOW WORKLOAD, HIGH CONFIDENCE, HIGH RESULTS.
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