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>1. If I understand your e-mails, you did not check your bees for
> some time and they are full of honey.
Yes. I don't extract. Last inspection was in August.
> Are the screens of the bottom boards clean to let the falling
> mites go through?
Yes. They are quite new and very clean. There is a picture on
my website.
http://www.honeybeeworld.com/diary/incl/IMG364.jpg
There are more discussion and illustrations at
http://www.honeybeeworld.com/diary
>2. It is important to know how big is the bee population in the hive.
The populations are average for this time of year. One year when
we shook packages to ship to Arizona around this date we had
around ten pounds of bees as I recall.
>Most of the time we find the screen bottom board is clogged
> with debris from bees, wax, pollen , etc.
Good point. Not the case here, though.
> By the way we finished checking 40 hives in Edmonton region, Alberta
> Canada. Each hive still has 2-6 frames of capped brood at this time
> of the year.
I think that is the case here. You remember my EPS hives from
2004 when you and Sam checked them, and that they raise brood
later in these boxes compared to wood..
I am seeing as much as 40% pale mites and that indicates that there
is brood in these hives. I may pull a few frames in one of the
smaller hives one of these days, as I have to take a few of the
uppermost boxes off and put them on the bottom since a some of
the hives have full boxes of drawn and capped foundation on top
and I have not had good wintering success on brand new comb in the
past. (The bees are not in those boxes now, but are farther down,
but would move up there in late winter).
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