ENZO
House Bee
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- Mar 27, 2009
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- Jersey C.I.
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- 16
Hello All,
I know it's a Big No No and I have never done this but what is actually wrong with extracting Honey from comb which has previously had brood in? I am not talking of old, black and ugly comb but just comb which has had only a few generations in, are the cells not cleaned out by the bees after brood has been in there? My reasoning for this question is that on a flow I see any spare cells in the brood chamber full of nectar before it's moved into the super, so the bees actually store it in brood cells themselves,
also I was looking at an american bee forum and it's mentioned that a lot of beekeepers don't seem to use queen excluders until the end of the season to isolate the queen, so with all the brood chambers and supers being the same size, surely they must extract from comb that has had brood in?
Many Thanks,
Enzo.
I know it's a Big No No and I have never done this but what is actually wrong with extracting Honey from comb which has previously had brood in? I am not talking of old, black and ugly comb but just comb which has had only a few generations in, are the cells not cleaned out by the bees after brood has been in there? My reasoning for this question is that on a flow I see any spare cells in the brood chamber full of nectar before it's moved into the super, so the bees actually store it in brood cells themselves,
also I was looking at an american bee forum and it's mentioned that a lot of beekeepers don't seem to use queen excluders until the end of the season to isolate the queen, so with all the brood chambers and supers being the same size, surely they must extract from comb that has had brood in?
Many Thanks,
Enzo.