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What makes it then warre? - no swarming inspection? - crushing combs and loosing half of yield? - having no extractor (that is no method)

If I say that I have open mind, and during 60 years in beekeeping I have learned every day something new, then I admit, that my head is full of rubbish.

Warrehive does not have movable frames. If it has, then it is propably Langstroth in worldwide.

How many kilos you harvest per hive?

There are huge claims about Warre hive, that it is cheap to manage. No need to inspect like frame hives. - to crush the combs, honey will be used douple amount to produce new combs every time. - no need to inspect so often.... well, what happens to swarm cells... - how to inspect need of...

Mite thing is sometimes easy thing

In warre hive you must destroy the combs, and those combs have as much honey energy as the honey inside has. To the beekeeper the honey will cost two times as much as in nornal frame comb system. I cannot not believe that someone has commercial warre honey production. It is huge waste of...

2 supers= supernatural...

If you have a clipped queen, swarm does not arrive to the queen, which is not able to fly. The quee must be able to fly to the swarm. What the bees do with a queen, which cannot move the the new nest? And perhaps cannot make mating flights.

You have queen cells You do not see the eggs of clipped queen. You do not need test frames. The hive has tried to swarm and the queen is went into lawn. No mystery to be seen.

Quite an old story.

A DIfficult problem. Terrible.

A huge story....

Artificial swarming method. Denaree or Badgen . What ever you call it. Splitting does no tell much.

A swarm can have 5 queens. 3 is ordinary.

Never heard

You should look inside the hive. If it is full of brood, the colony has went to find a new home.

Bees have clear system, how they swarm. Nothing mystery in it. But one is special thing. A hive produces 200 % more new hives and itself remains alive. However number of bee colonies remain almost the same. The losses in nature is huge.

A swarm has departed and returned or what. Abscond is very rare maneuver in bee hives. What means "at some point"