Hi All
 
Just a note - observation hives are far more prone to the small hive
beetle as they don't thermoregulate so well and sometimes have to
withdraw away from pollen stores - and the beetles get in.
 
I have had some problems here (SA - different country, different bee)
with the hive beetles and my obs hives - if you are in an area with
hive beetle problems it would probably be adviseable to put the thing
into a nuc for winter - a beehive in a shop with hive beetles is
really bad advertising for bees - there is nothing more gross than
the smell of rotting pollen, brood and ugly little maggets dripping
out of the frames amid a helpless cluster of bees!
 
Keep well
 
Garth
 
Garth Cambray           Camdini Apiaries
15 Park Road
Grahamstown             Apis mellifera capensis
6139
South Africa
 
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