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>>found my old cell builder gets hot after several manipulations, to hot for
>>a yard full of kids and a dog. The
> You may want to try using the Cloake Board method or using a smaller hive
> to raise the cells. I've found >
I used a Cloake Board on a mature hive. After a few flips they started
coming at me like one of those AHB videos.
>> I have lost most of my new Queens to my own robbing bees this year.
> What do you use for mating nucs? How big is the entrance? The first year
> I raised queens I used 5 frame
Last year I used 5 frame deeps with robber screens. This year I switched
over to all medium boxes, I have a bad back. I divided medium boxes into
fourths, two frames each with a 3/4 enterance. I was thinking the entrance
was small enough to defend. I was wrong, every one was robbed out. If I
screen the hole, leaving an opening at the top like a robber screen, do you
think the queen will find her way in?
I was being cheap this year, trying to more with less and in didn't work
out. I should have sticked to the larger nucs.
Question: In the North East, how late in the year would you try to mate
Queens? Last year I had drones right up to Christmas. I'd like to set up
and try to winter more nucs this year.
Jim Hock
Wethersfield, CT.
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