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>I guess it's just me, I hate it when things do not go as planned and I have
to think of a new way around something. I usually close young bees into a
ventilated box for 24 hours with food and water, after the 24 add the
grafted cells, pull them out after 24 hours and add every thing to a big
hive with a queen exculder to finish the cells.
Me too, but is there any good reason not to just open that box and let them fly?
> Going out today to feed and probably give them all a third brood box just to give some space. I usually run two deeps
but have enough equipment that the strongest hives can go into three.
I find it amazing the number of brood boxes that you folks use! I hate doubles as they are so hard to work compared with singles; the idea of three is just too much! I am also thinking that your Langstroth is 50% bigger, so three is four and a half times my ideal! What is amazes me more is that the US average crop per colony is less than mine - guess yours all goes into the brood boxes!
>Every year it seems the weather becomes more of a challenge along with the
health of the bees.
Could not agree more. My thinking now is that climate is a much bigger problem than all the diseases - including varroa - and the pesticides. Given a half-decent season for weather our bees thrive, but a poor one, like 2012, leaves them very vulnerable to all the other problems. If (when) the climate changes even more (and perhaps more rapidly) I do wonder whether they will cope - they have no God-given right to survive, any more than other species that have not.
Best wishes
Peter
52°14'44.44"N, 1°50'35"W
Thanks,
Karen
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