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Dogwalker

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When i removed the queen excluder why were large attached to the bars?

When is the correct time to replace frames in the brood box? Some are looking very black/brown

Thank you for your comments.
 
I only replace when looking manky.
Some of the bottoms of my dark combs were bit mouldy/ crappy looking so cut off about 1/3 height, bees draw the comb out with new wax.
 
Apologies should have read LARVAE
It happens. I have a colony that continually builds comb through the queen excluder and drones develop in the cells. Unfortunately they get trashed as the excluder is removed. It pays to give a colony a frame or two foundation free so they can build sufficient drone comb without the use of the excluder. This colony of mine is my only one without foundation free frames.
 
It could be that the bee space is too large between frame tops and excluder wire.
Are you using TBS hive with a BBS excluder ?
 
My landlord has a few excluders from Thornes that always cause this problem so we changed them for bamboo excluders and problem solved.
 

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