advice on single/double brood please

[enrico]

They will draw the super and use it at the same time. They don't draw all the wax first. So you will get brood in the super and you must make sure the queen is not in there when you add the we
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[Anduril]

They will draw the super and use it at the same time. They don't draw all the wax first. So you will get brood in the super and you must make sure the queen is not in there when you add the we
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Is that the royal We or qe

 

[enrico]

Is that the royal We or qe

 

[Cuckmere couple]

They will draw the super and use it at the same time. They don't draw all the wax first. So you will get brood in the super and you must make sure the queen is not in there when you add the we
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so could just add super with qe? was only planning to keep it off to speed up their drawing of it...

plus, maybe your advice is add bb too...im thinking sequentially but perhaps they dont work that way and can handle super undrawn above and bb undrawn below?

 

[enrico]

Yes! Without wishing to sound rude, that's what I said at the start!

 

[Beefriendly]

so could just add super with qe? was only planning to keep it off to speed up their drawing of it...

plus, maybe your advice is add bb too...im thinking sequentially but perhaps they dont work that way and can handle super undrawn above and bb undrawn below?

You are definitely overthinking the problem. Reverse your thinking...if you don't give them enough room they may swarm while you are away. If you give them too much room (at this time of the year) no harm will come to them.
If it is a strong Buckfast colony then by the time you get back they will have drawn and laid all brood frames and you will have a super of honey .....

 

[Hachi]

You are definitely overthinking the problem. Reverse your thinking...if you don't give them enough room they may swarm while you are away. If you give them too much room (at this time of the year) no harm will come to them.
If it is a strong Buckfast colony then by the time you get back they will have drawn and laid all brood frames and you will have a super of honey .....

He's not wrong, just do it. Otherwise you risk loosing the lot. This bee stuff is not an exact science unfortunately.

 

[Cuckmere couple]

Yes! Without wishing to sound rude, that's what I said at the start!

you did indeed, bt this time around, i understand it...its the understanding that matters...thanks!

 

[Cuckmere couple]

He's not wrong, just do it. Otherwise you risk loosing the lot. This bee stuff is not an exact science unfortunately.

Hachi and Beefriendly

and enrico

and the rest

thank you and will do

 

[enrico]

You need to start thinking as though you are a bee! Not a scientist or biologist or even a mathematician. Bees, unlike us do things as they need them and according to the conditions at the time. Try and sense what you would do if you were them! Plenty of stores, plenty of bees, nice warm weather ..... Let's swarm for example! Stores ok, brood is slow and the queen is crap, ....... let's replace her, for example.
Try and read what's going on in the hive. You will never think quite like them so they will always catch you out but at least you are part way there!
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[Cuckmere couple]

You need to start thinking as though you are a bee! Not a scientist or biologist or even a mathematician. Bees, unlike us do things as they need them and according to the conditions at the time. Try and sense what you would do if you were them! Plenty of stores, plenty of bees, nice warm weather ..... Let's swarm for example! Stores ok, brood is slow and the queen is crap, ....... let's replace her, for example.
Try and read what's going on in the hive. You will never think quite like them so they will always catch you out but at least you are part way there!
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yes, sound advice...will keep leaning on others who have been thinking like bees for longer too as v helpful...thanks