Quick questions quick answers

[Angry_Mob]

Are swing cage extractors worth the price premium?

 

[For want of a better word]

Are swing cage extractors worth the price premium?

Ask Hivemaker... or his wife!!!

Chons da

 

[Popparand]

out unless doing a mite count

Why?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Why?

As the label says - it's an inspection tray, take out when not counting mites to allow air circulation
Leaving in allows build up of debris and bad hygiene
if you don't want air circulation, use solid floor

 

[SDM]

That’s simple, a colony lives in a hive

Hive is perfectly acceptable for a colony of bees or the container they live in.

 

[Cuckmere couple]

do you get non flying bees in supers processing nectar/honey or mainly flyers?

reason for asking

when clearing supers with bees still in them, ive shaken bees out at front of hive after replacing crown board and they seem to have stayed on ground in front of hive

 

[Erichalfbee]

do you get non flying bees in supers processing nectar/honey or mainly flyers?

reason for asking

when clearing supers with bees still in them, ive shaken bees out at front of hive after replacing crown board and they seem to have stayed on ground in front of hive

Foragers bringing nectar home pass their booty on to house bees who pass that on further to more house bees and it eventually reaches the storage ripening area.... supers or top of brood comb. So no.... foragers are not up in the supers.
Bees bringing pollen home have to deposit it themselves though so if there is pollen being put in the supers they may be there.
At really busy times the foraging bees will by-pass the entrance entirely and pass nectar through the omf

 

[Cuckmere couple]

so

when shaking bees off supers, always shake into brood box?

 

[Beefriendly]

Yes........where else where you thinking of shaking them?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

do you get non flying bees in supers

No such thing really as non flying bees, they are just bees not engaged on flying duties at that time,All bees can fly a couple of days from emerging, they're just a bit confused.
Can you imagine just packing the weekly shop away and some clown comes along, rips the roof off then upends the kitchen into the brambles at the bottom of the garden - it would take you a minute or two to get your wits about you

 

[Ian123]

Yes........where else where you thinking of shaking them?

In the hedge after they are fired out by the leaf blower.

 

[Finman]

so

when shaking bees off supers, always shake into brood box?

That is a bad habit. Bees become angry.
Shake in front of the hive

 

[For want of a better word]

That is a bad habit. Bees become angry.
Shake in front of the hive

Never shake bees... it may upset them.

Leaf blowers are good for clearing loads of supers in an apiary... get one ( like the Draper Expert) that does not blast the fumey exhaust into the air stream.... work just down wind to the colonies and the girls will just love the windy ride back home......

chons da

 

[Ian123]

I blow them into the neighbours.......ok only joking

 

[Cuckmere couple]

No such thing really as non flying bees, they are just bees not engaged on flying duties at that time,All bees can fly a couple of days from emerging, they're just a bit confused.
Can you imagine just packing the weekly shop away and some clown comes along, rips the roof off then upends the kitchen into the brambles at the bottom of the garden - it would take you a minute or two to get your wits about you

lol

understood

 

[Antipodes]

Does vaseline soften or damage polystyrene?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Does vaseline soften or damage polystyrene?

depends where you intend to insert it

 

[For want of a better word]

Is it necessary to treat new WRC brood boxes?

Have couple of gallons of raw TUNG TREE oil and wondered if to use it on the new Maisey's boxes we are knocking together????

Yeghes da

 

[Poly Hive]

Antiopdies? Why would you want to put vassie on poly?

PH

 

[Antipodes]

Hi Poly Hive, I have made a polystyrene solar wax melter from a used fish box. I used it the other day and the lid became really stuck on, so I just wanted to apply a substance to the rim to stop the lid sticking to the box...probably the black paint I used is the issue with the sticking actually, but there are still places where parts of the poly lid are unpainted, and I don't want to apply any more paint. It's already quite tight.