Brigsy
Drone Bee
- Joined
- Sep 6, 2015
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- Location
- Southish
- Hive Type
- Commercial
- Number of Hives
- 2
Hello all,
I'm back with my never ending beginners questions. Last couple of years I have ended up in Spring with too many frames with stores left from Autumn feeding. I have removed a couple of solid frames, bruised the nearest the nest and replaced with foundation or drawn comb.
This year, two weeks ago when it was warm, I opened up and found stores bound as per usual, so bruised a couple of frames of stores in each and planned to open up last weekend to see how they got on and replace with foundation to make space if needed.
Now it was too cold, and this week is looking at 11-13 degrees all week. I have that sense of foreboding and need to do something but the weather prevents.
I was holding off adding supers as I don't want honey full of invert.
I suppose I could add supers for the time being and just spin them out and discard and start again when the brood area is under control.
Or sit on my hands and hope.....
Any thoughts please.....what to do for the best?
Thanks
I'm back with my never ending beginners questions. Last couple of years I have ended up in Spring with too many frames with stores left from Autumn feeding. I have removed a couple of solid frames, bruised the nearest the nest and replaced with foundation or drawn comb.
This year, two weeks ago when it was warm, I opened up and found stores bound as per usual, so bruised a couple of frames of stores in each and planned to open up last weekend to see how they got on and replace with foundation to make space if needed.
Now it was too cold, and this week is looking at 11-13 degrees all week. I have that sense of foreboding and need to do something but the weather prevents.
I was holding off adding supers as I don't want honey full of invert.
I suppose I could add supers for the time being and just spin them out and discard and start again when the brood area is under control.
Or sit on my hands and hope.....
Any thoughts please.....what to do for the best?
Thanks