From: "Aaron Morris" " I'm assembling shallow frames to put in my
> deep bodies with the intent of cutting the capped drone brood 3 or 4 times
> a
> season."

Bees rear drones in 'wild' comb in spring , yes - but can you always prolong
drone rearing so as to cull drone brood 3 or 4 times a season...?  If not,
you will be cutting away nectar/stored honey - sounds wasteful.

While asking, the other problem is surely avoiding setting up a varroa
nursery - by leaving wild comb with drone cells in it for more than 3 weeks
so that drones (and varroa) emerge.  Sounds like need to cull EVERY 3 weeks,
that's could be say 8 times thru the summer.  How is this done in practice?

Established European practice seems to be drone brood cull only in spring
using a
frame divided into 3 parts, one part being cut every week , formic acid
pads after removing supers in say August, oxalic acid dribbled in late
autumn.  Why is that not the routine in US?

Robin Dartington

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