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On 4-Aug-17, at 10:29 AM, randy oliver wrote:
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>>> I cannot understand why anyone would need twelve 11 7/8" frames...
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> The trick seems to be to keep a box of "stickies"
> (recently-extracted drawn combs) directly above the excluder, so
> that the
> bees don't plug out the brood chamber with honey or pollen.
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Hi Randy & All
The statement above concerning stickies is certainly not true here in
Ontario. The bees store brood food (honey & pollen) in the first
super above the queen excluder. That super does get travel stained
with all the up & down traffic. The brood chamber is wall to wall to
wall brood(I run 9 frames per box) except a very small band of honey
at the top of most frames. I have one hive permanently installed on
a platform scale which I check each evening and it often gains 10-20+
pounds per day. Last year was my best ever with 8 singles and 6 June
nucs(queen cells used) producing over 3000 pounds of packed honey.
Most years we have great July & September flows but this year it has
rained almost daily with severe thunderstorms and heavy downpours often.
Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
44N80W ( once again at 5PM today, as I am writing this, Environment
Canada issued a severe thunderstorm warning for much of southern
Ontario including here )
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