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    Harvesting supers and overcrowding.

    Won't they need to heat more space now ?and I really doubt I can lift brood box I was already on the verge of breaking my spine while lifting full super. How long should I wait until removing super(for population decrease)?Even if they beard after I remove super they wont swarm, will they ? Is...
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    Harvesting supers and overcrowding.

    Thanks really useful link !
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    Harvesting supers and overcrowding.

    My first year hive which was started from nucleus in early June had super added on after half of month with 8 drawn out combs and after they filled 7 with brood and nectar I decided to add 2nd super .On the 1st of September after inspection I saw that the first super is full of capped honey and...
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    Swarming or not ?

    That is a photo from the hive after I have transferred frames .It wasn't proper nuc just plastic box with bees inside and the amount of bees was so big that I couldn't see the frames without using beebrush . I was worried they hang on the crownboard because there is still lack of space even with...
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    Swarming or not ?

    Collected my nucleus today and It was overcrowded with bees .They had ,so little space that they started to build comb on the top of 2 frames .The first thing which I noticed were these presumably queen cells .I started to worry that queen has died ,but than I have found her and she was fine...
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    Hive question

    Hello . I am a newbee and have been planning to make a Warre hive at first ,but because of trouble obtaining a package and insecurity in my ability to install bees I decided to start with 5 frame nucleus in my first year of beekeeping .A seller I will preorder from sells nucleuses with British...
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