In a message dated 30/12/2006 07:57:46 GMT Standard Time,
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1. Apidia boxes that I have seen have a piece of queen excluder in
front of the fondant. Why is it important to keep the Q out of the
foundant ?
We don't want her to get besmeared or to use the fondant box as an extension
of the brood nest.
2. What are the advantages of feeding fondant rather than syrup in
Apidea boxes ?
You fill an Apidea with bees by turning it upside down. This gets messy with
syrup. Later feeds can be with syrup. A few fir cones wedged into the feed
container give the bees something to stand on.
3. In the mini frames we normally use starter strips of wax. What
are the advantages of this as against giving them a full mini sheet ?
Full sheets of foundation are walls splitting the colony. The few workers
in a mini nuc need to work altogether in a cluster using warmth and gravity to
draw their combs.
Chris
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