Do you use a QE

[richardbees]

bob777

I advise you use a QE Think ahead to the Autumn i.e you're going to have to consolidate the hive for overwintering.

There is some very confusing advice on this thread for a new beek!

richard

 

[Chris B]

The usual argument trotted out against extracting honey from brood frames is that young bees have defecated in the cells. It's a weak argument seeing as worker bees clean every cell meticulously before reuse.
Having said that, I don't like extracting brood frames as the uncapping is more effort.

 

[Hivemaker.]

Then there is Hivemaker's post about putting three drawn supers under the brood box at the beginning of the season with an entrance between the supers and brood so that foragers go down ignoring the nest.
No excluder there either......

Yes there is an excluder there of course,as the queen would simply go down into the supers if there wasn't.

I do both, so have not voted in this poll.....The largest honey farm in England uses no excluders either.

 

[For want of a better word]

If you want bees to breed up a particular strain and not just produce honey then surely a QE is used to get eggs / larvae of the right age?

probably one of the solutions to Fermats conundrum?

 

[For want of a better word]

Fermat's Last Theorem states that no three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy the equation an + bn = cn for any integer value of n greater than two.

There goes another bottle of finest single malt !!!

 

[Erichalfbee]

Yes there is an excluder there of course,as the queen would simply go down into the supers if there wasn't.

Of course there must be.......not thinking.
How do you configure the hive please?
I know you posted about it earlier but I can't find it. I'd like to try next year.