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I store hundreds of boxes with brood comb, in my shed. Xantari works well in stopping wax moth larvae...both Lesser and Greater wax moths. Cheap. Spray is administered from the bottom. Set brood box on end and spray each comb as you spread the combs like the pages of a book. No more wax moth issues.

We have several species of GR. Flat top, Canada, and Tall all yield nectar. Some of the others don’t.

Last evening while walking the dogs, I noticed the fragrance of Goldenrod flowers. Today I smelled Goldenrod nectar ripening. First time GR has yielded nectar since 2019.

Haven't seen anything relationship. Supercedure would indicate that the bees found my new queen unacceptable. I would expect if so, the supercedure cells would show up weeks or more from introduction.

When requeening a colony using either a push in or wooden cage, the bees will often make emergency cells. Once the queen is released the cells are usually destroyed by the colony.

Yes, thousands of times over almost 50 years. The Doolittle method...G.M. Doolittle. Best method for accuracy and speed.

It was Benzaldehyde that formed crystals not BeeGo.

Lyme is gone. Sweet Clover going by. A bit of White Dutch Clover continues. Purple Loosestrife in full bloom. Used to be a decent flow until the government released a European beetle that almost wiped out the plant. Coming back nicely now after a dozen years. Goldenrod coming on soon...enough...

Honey bees aren't my only passion. Just a snapshot of my garden.

Not always. Emergency cells are located at the edges of the sealed brood pattern...where the youngest larvae were when the queen was lost. When you find the E cells that brood and the cells will be capped.

Are they supercedure or emergency? The two are different, created by the bees for different reasons.

Not sure about HP in syrup. I have read of people adding a cup of Clorox to a drum of syrup. I assume to sterilize the syrup. Randy Oliver wrote about it on his site years ago. He tested the syrup a short time after treating (1 day?) and couldn't find any Chlorine ions.

Watch this to see how I use nucleus colonies to support my apiary. From the brood and bees I harvest from the brood factories I make 1200+ queens and 300+ nucleus colonies.

I allow my queens an unlimited broodnest. If I don't I select for the least prolific queens. the most prolific are in the trees. I can't address what you are doing with your single broods, because our conditions are so different. But I will say, why would you remove the first super? That's the...

I so agree. I mark maybe a hundred queens on queen marking day. The pens fail every time. Dry out and then flood the queen. I like Testor's Model paint. My paint brush is free, and grows everywhere. A thin piece of Timothy seed Stem. queen-marking

Boiling today...doesn't that figure.

But yes, you can put them back together. You have to correct the issue...enlarge the cavity size...however you decide to do it. I increase the cavity size with nuc boxes, allowing them to move up vertically. You might put them in your full size hive. I don't think you need to move them to...

I've seen this absconding in nucleus colonies too many times. I found it most often occurs in hot humid weather, when they get crowded. They can't cool off their cavity so they have to leave. You're lucky they clustered nearby. Many I've witnessed, while occurring, flew away and never...