Get yourself a 14x12 hive then you need not worry over or under!
Yeesss! And where do the bees put that 'super equivalent' of stores? OVER!
Yeesss! And where do the bees put that 'super equivalent' of stores? OVER!
I agree, which only goes to show that going 14x12 is not necessarily a holy grail. With a full super over the BB still full on spring inspection suggests they would do quite fine in just the BB alone.Finman said:= too much space and too much food.
i always thought "yummy mummy" and Cornwall were mutually exclusive. Or is that just the lower end of the Tamar.
Get yourself a 14x12 hive then you need not worry over or under!
Yeesss! And where do the bees put that 'super equivalent' of stores? OVER!
Why do you put yours under, Drew?
Stick it where you like, in the Tamar Valley it is hardly likley to get cold enough that the bees will not find it!The question was
should a super FULL OF STORES go below or above the Brood Box over winter?
Just answer.... UNDER or OVER !
Some put an empty super to eke the BB above an OMF but that was not the question
humans don't consume the winter stores, bees do.
oxalic residues in wax are not a problem.
I have heard reports of a chemical build up in wax which is also present in the foundation we are buying. I pretty sure that bees do not consume all there stores through the winter and there will be some that goes through to extraction the following year.[/quote
yes but carrots have 100 fold more oxalic acid than trickled honeycombs.
But no one extract treated winter food.
.you just have wrong information if yor chemical list has oxalic acid
I have linked at least 10 times those researches into this forum. .
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