Hi, hope there is someone out there that can help me,novice and first disaster.Put feeder on last night and have found out the feederhad a leak,it leaked about half a pint of feed directly into the broodbox.(no superframes fitted yet).What should i do?
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Remove it and test before using again.
Bees will be fine.
PH
Bees will be fine.
PH
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Don't worry if its only half a pint of liquid as the bees will clear that up in a couple of days.
You could check in a couple of days that the floor, if its not an OMF, is dry and no pools of wet or dampness.
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You could check in a couple of days that the floor, if its not an OMF, is dry and no pools of wet or dampness.
Regards;
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If an inverting feeder then it sounds as though lid not fully clicked into place- It takes the smallest of gap to unload the lot.We have all done something similar
Good luck with your new colony, and welcome to the beekeeping fraternity
Good luck with your new colony, and welcome to the beekeeping fraternity
