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- Location
- Stoke on Trent
- Hive Type
- Langstroth
- Number of Hives
- 6 to 8 Langstroth jumbos, a few Langstroth and National nucs.
To expand on the original question .and not to be confused with say winter reduction in egg laying
1) when And why can we expect a queen to stop laying for a short period.
2) if we note a queen isn’t laying new eggs how long do we tell ourselves “she is on a brood break”
1. when you get continuous cold weather and bees are unable to fly so no food input OR - Drought so no nectar OR gap between two crops = no food coming in. Or this year all three at once!
2. Until she starts laying when there is nectar /pollen coming in - in volume.
I get brood breaks every summer as it usually rains in July and August!