On 24 May 97 at 11:25, Charles Hatton wrote:
 
 
 
> Is it O.K. to weekly, biweekly, or monthly to remove each frame from
the brood chambers to examine them?  Is it O.K. to rearrange the
order of the frames on a regular basis in the brood chambers?
 
We do!  We try hard to examine each hive every 10 days max. I don't
want precious queens going over the fence to a neighbour, or worse
being knocked on the head. Within that time frame (10 day intervals)
you can see trouble brewing and do something about it.
        Just for example; this weekend we were doing spring inspections.
This consists of a complete strip down, each frame examined, clean
bottom boards, etc. In two hives I found empty frames outside of
sealed honey, yet the queens were running out of laying space. So
without thinking those outer empty frames were placed inboard of the
sealed honey. One, in the middle of the cluster and one just inboard
of the sealed frame. Good chance if that had not been done it could
have set off swarming tendencies.
 
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