ruffle
New Bee
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- May 31, 2011
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- Location
- Peterborough
- Hive Type
- WBC
- Number of Hives
- 3
I should preface this with saying that up to now we've not been extracting honey in any form other than cut comb so spinning or otherwise isn't really an option (no kit or great desire to do it).
We're halfway through this years Apiguard treatment and we took off the supers before the first dose. There's quite a bit of uncapped honey in the supers and I'm wondering if the following course of action makes sense to you more experienced beeks.
When the Agiguard is finished, we'll put the supers back on over a QE and feeder board; bruising the capped stores. I'm hoping the bees will rob out the stores in the super and take it down into the brood box (brood and a half).
We can then take the supers (one per hive) off and store the empty comb over the winter.
Is this the likely outcome? or will I be left with the problem of partly filled supers to store?
Any better suggestions?
We're halfway through this years Apiguard treatment and we took off the supers before the first dose. There's quite a bit of uncapped honey in the supers and I'm wondering if the following course of action makes sense to you more experienced beeks.
When the Agiguard is finished, we'll put the supers back on over a QE and feeder board; bruising the capped stores. I'm hoping the bees will rob out the stores in the super and take it down into the brood box (brood and a half).
We can then take the supers (one per hive) off and store the empty comb over the winter.
Is this the likely outcome? or will I be left with the problem of partly filled supers to store?
Any better suggestions?