Thanks for this video but it is confusing for us novices. As Finman says why just a crap load of supers? Even in decent weather does that work?
On the first hive inspection he also has 10 frames but no QC so just adds a super?!
I run brood and half on some of mine and would have added the super and kept the QE off, then apply the Wally Shaw watch-where-the-top-of-the-brood-nest-is over time to decide if the full or half goes at the top and swap accordingly. Surely swarming primarily is about whether the queen has room to lay?
He mentions at the beginning its about queen pheromone across the hive, sounds reasonable, so then why all that empty super space?
Also why did he take the queen out, cage her and then put her back in again?
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The info was posted in respect of Beagle's observation, my effort to clarify (using example) of what "peak efficiency"
actually looks like.
" I think one of my hives has reached peak efficiency for the first time."
If you read the whole of that post _and_ note the expansion allowances made in the video your questions on supers
added have clear answers.
As the video states CM lies between how Hive#1 and Hive#2 present.
There are many many "lessons" in that presentation and why I specifically use it as tutorial for CM, many of the tips
not vocalised. So it is I will attempt to address the questions you raise from your veiwing
"On the first hive inspection he also has 10 frames but no QC so just adds a super?!"
Myself I would have left Hive#1 as is, adding an FD next inspection... depending on flow. Likewise with Hive#2 I
would only be adding a single FD. Unless there is an owned b'keep mobility problem - 0r one is producing free
form cutcomb - it is not "efficient" for bees to be using smaller boxes than FD, regardless of what the Internet says.
"I run brood and half on some of mine..."
I cannot help (anyone) with BCs beyond a single FD box.
Having tried all those differing configs eons ago it is known (to me) such is actually regressive for "efficiency" - no
doubt the maths in showing this have been posted here more than once in the past.
"Surely swarming primarily is about... "
Swarming is not primarily about space, that there is an Internet generated meme... n0t a b'keeps understanding, at all.
"He mentions at the beginning its about queen pheromone..."
Phereomone (queen and brood) tells bees a colony is "queenright" and so to be recognised is indeed throughout the colony on it's airpaths. B'keeps rely on the Fact in performing many management manipulations from raising emergency queens through to correcting LWS (laying workers syndrome).
"Also why did he take the queen out. .."
The queen (any) is caged on finding as with bees past CM - and so in full swarm mode - it is possible to find more than a
single queen running around. He is simply following Good Practice.
Happy to help on any other points noted in video on efficiency without expanding on explantions now supplied - the
topic is on "peak efficiency" so it is a presupposed readers understand the topic, and the example supplied in
that way, none other.
Bill
