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At 08:57 01/06/96 -0700, you wrote:
> Hello All, I was adding boxs to my bees that I srarted on April 6th of
>this year and noticed something. Out of the 25 hives that I added boxs
>and took a look inside , I saw a big difference in brood patterns. About
>30% were solid and made me think about all the honey they will make.Then
>come the ones with cells that were void, about 100 or more on a frame of
>snip<
Hi Roy and everyone else, I have already send details of this post to the
list but I'm not sure if it got to you all, can someone out there confirm I
am posting?
My first post to this list, thank you all for your interesting topics in the
past.
I have been managing bees now for about 18 months so be nice please!
Roy ref your post: I have a couple of colonies producing solid brood
patterns (mainly dark european race)but they are much slower building up,
ie; when other colonies were on 8 frames of brood the dark bees were on 3 or
4 but not a cell missed! I'm afraid I culled the queens as I need a really
early build up for the oil seed rape.
My request for help is:
I raised my first batch of virgins yesterday using my friend's incubator.
The problem I had was the delay in introducing the queens to mini nucs. I
got tied up with swarms, helping old ladies etc and ended up putting the
queens in about 8 pm last night. They hatched after lunch so were unfed for
up to 6 or 7 hours.
I used some bees from a local swarm and made up mini nucs before going to
collect the virgins. About 1.5 hrs later I slipped them in to the closed
mini nuc boxes, on checking this morning 8:00am the nucs are still roaring!
I haven't released the bees yet.
Any advice on what I am doing wrong and perhaps a better method.
24 hours later UPdate:
Bees have now been released, I will check tonight to see if the virgins are
still around, it looks like one lot have left their box and joined another
around 6ft away. I have made some more minis up this time I found that
taking young bees from the top super on a queen right colony works better as
presumably these bees are relatively young.
Regards
Ken Black
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