Malta Bee
New Bee
- Joined
- Nov 10, 2012
- Messages
- 5
- Reaction score
- 0
- Location
- Malta
- Hive Type
- Langstroth
- Number of Hives
- 14
My bees dont seem to like plastic foundation.
I added a super with plastic foundation to a Langstroth brood body , after a couple of months the bees didnt touch the plastic foundatiion and stored the honey down in the brood box along with the brood.The hive was packed with both honey and capped brood in the brood box.
To make space I added another brood box and moved up 3 frames of mostly honey and some brood ,shook off the bees and added a queen excluder and added drawn wax frames instead of plastic foundation.
I would like to ask 2 questions :
1 - how do you manage to use plastic foundation ?
2 - will the capped brood survive as i moved them to the upper brood box above the queen excluder.
I added a super with plastic foundation to a Langstroth brood body , after a couple of months the bees didnt touch the plastic foundatiion and stored the honey down in the brood box along with the brood.The hive was packed with both honey and capped brood in the brood box.
To make space I added another brood box and moved up 3 frames of mostly honey and some brood ,shook off the bees and added a queen excluder and added drawn wax frames instead of plastic foundation.
I would like to ask 2 questions :
1 - how do you manage to use plastic foundation ?
2 - will the capped brood survive as i moved them to the upper brood box above the queen excluder.