Easy bite sized chunks of swarm control

[Bakerbee]

Found this and thought it well explained and helpful to any newbees struggling to grasp the complexities of swarm control

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...FjACegQIBBAB&usg=AOvVaw3LVDjz_MPjn0OvU6_QviDr

 

[blackcloud]

Thanks
I'm sure some old troll will shuffle out and urinate over it but it is most welcome for newbs.

 

[JonnyPicklechin]

Cheers. Very useful.1

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[Poly Hive]

Had to chuckle actually as quite a few things in there that I have been poo pooed about over the years and there it is in black and white.

Nice.

PH

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Wally is a much respercted 'thinking' beekeeper who think through and questions/tests anything he reads before carrying on with it - none of this copy and paste of established mantra just becaus it's the way it's always been done. No time for badges and ribbons and all that mullarkey - well into his eighties there is no sign of him slowing down much to his wife Jenny's exasperation at times (she's also a knowledgeable beekeeper BTW)
I have a lot of respect for Wally, we don't always agree on everything but who does? and when we don't we can talk and thrash it out (missed a few lectures at the spring convention that way - still chatting in the foyer outside!!)

 

[citrus]

Thanks for sharing .. and Wally writes ...


3) There MUST be a nectar flow (or the
beekeeper must provide one) – bees do not
use stored honey for wax making

Would they use stored nectar that isnt converted yet ?

 

[citrus]

Dump box

Also like wally's suggestion of a 'dump box' .. .saves having to store frames in the shed from mice/ants

 

[Swarm]

Also like wally's suggestion of a 'dump box' .. .saves having to store frames in the shed from mice/ants

Just make sure it is securely strapped, one tiny gap and it's goodnight Vienna.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

The dump box is basically a modification of a Demarree - box goes on top of the hive so that any brood left in the 'discarded' frames can emerge and join the colony. As he says, not recommended if you suspect any disease in the colonies donating the frames.