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that style gives 40 times more fresh air to the hive, what the bees actually need. Everyone knows, what does it mean in a human house.

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What is the idea? What kind of floor you have ? If I would keep the entrance wide open, the queen would not come to lay into the first box. And I keep the entrance block as mouse quard

Yes, I don't from others what they do. Bees tell when the enrances and ventilation is proper. Keep in mind that weather is coolest at night. Here among beekeepers there are huge bebates, what kind of floor and what kind of ventilations hives should have. Debates are eternal. Mere mesh. Guys...

I evaluate the need of ventilation from the number of ventilating bees. In July during main flow I keep entrance block off.

You should first train to laugh for nothing. That will be fun.

Over one month

Wax is brittle when it is cold.

And the swarm queen is not very valuable. Actually it has no value. If primary swarm is gone, you hive is in crisis then you wait 3 weeks, that new queen starts to lay. Then you wait 3 weeks that new bees starts to energe. 6 weeks waiting and what? One alternative is to buy a new good...

I inspect my hives and mating nucs every week. If something has happened to the queen, I do not wait for miracles.

In had a hive that swarmed 7 days ago. . I left one sealed queen cell in it. I did an inspection today and the queen cell has emerged. There is another way to calculate. Primary swarm left and so stopped laying. From this point it takes 3 weeks that new queen is ready to lay. It means...

If weathers are good, and the queen can make mating flights as she likes, it is 10 days then from emerging.

A hive use to swarm first time when the first queen cells are capped. Second swarm (cast) leaves after a week , when new new queens are ready to fly. Days cannot be exact, because you do not know when the first eggs are in play cups. Egg stage is 3 days. Time to egg laying to capped larva...

7 days cycle in inspectipn is good and practical. I cannot see any reason, why it shoud be "probaply" 4 days. When you took the queen away, you must do an AS to cut swarming fever, and give the queen to the AS, that queen continues laying

But forget the nuc in swarm control. Clipped queen wing would be good. Do that AS when you see real queen cells. Queen cell cups mean nothing. Idea is to get the queen continue to lay summer bees. When make an AS, make it with foundations. When you put the queen into the AS, it takes 3 days...

Such happens. Take the excluder off and let the queen use the super as brood box Next time when you enlarge the hive, put second brood box under the first broodbox. Gradually bees fill the super with honey. When all brood are capped, put the excluder again.

I kicked off wooden boxes 10 years ago and carried the rest to the landfill. .

It spoils only the colony. It does not help swarming thing. Padgen is best way to act now.

The boxes may be 2 or 5, and it is always same method when you see swarm cells. The thing is to cut swarming fever and get the old queen lay again and produce bees for summer. Move the hive 3 metres to side and make an AS hive with foundations onto the old place. Do not split the hive more...

That advertising makes no sense. I have used poly boxes 35 years. And I have used timber boxes 50 years.