Paddywhack
New Bee
So it's my first hive, and the ladies have been good to me, and I have what appears to be 2 full supers, have a couple of questions.
1. When's the right time, I'm in high wycombe and not sure if I'm supposed to start now or is there a "marker" I'm suppose to look for that tells me I should start the harvest?
2. I appear to have a semi circle on most super frame that are uncapped about 4 inches across centrally on the frame. Firstly why? What have I done wrong? Secondly is it safe to extract.
I've swapped the two supers over from top to bottom today just to make things easier for the bees is this right? First super is more full than the second I added.
thanks in advance
Jon
1. When's the right time, I'm in high wycombe and not sure if I'm supposed to start now or is there a "marker" I'm suppose to look for that tells me I should start the harvest?
2. I appear to have a semi circle on most super frame that are uncapped about 4 inches across centrally on the frame. Firstly why? What have I done wrong? Secondly is it safe to extract.
I've swapped the two supers over from top to bottom today just to make things easier for the bees is this right? First super is more full than the second I added.
thanks in advance
Jon