Supernatural hive.🤣🤣

[Sutty]

You could try another brand of excluder, and leave the super in it's place assuming not much drone brood in it, and having put the queen downstairs again.

 

[enrico]

Difficult to get a good look in the cells from the images but glad it lasted oks ok now

 

[ericbeaumont]

queen running around back in super again

What sort of QX do you use?

should I put super beneath brood box

Only if the poor QX is resolved.

 

[jarmo henttu]

Hi all, crisis diverted found larvae today with queen running around back in super again, quick question should I put super beneath brood box as there’s loads more room in brood box or just leave her to it. I’ve attached images as I went to brood box first for photos.
Ps thanks for all the replies greatly needed for noobees like me.

Are these bees Carniolan? So clear strand in abdomen.

 

[Allen Brookes]

Are these bees Carniolan? So clear strand in abdomen.

Yes got new Buchfast queen in now.

 

[Allen Brookes]

What sort of QX do you use?


Only if the poor QX is resolved.

 

[Allen Brookes]

What sort of QX do you use?


Only if the poor QX is resolved.

Plastic one

 

[ericbeaumont]

Plastic one

Thought you'd say that.

The wood-framed wire QX made by Lega in Italy is the best; Caddon have it at a good price (check why it is discounted) and C Wynne Jones next best. Avoid the Thorne wood-framed, which is stapled and has a thinner frame.

The plastic QX is a cheap nuisance: it lies flat on top bars and bees propolise the two together; because of this erratic contact and the absence of beespace, you will crush bees when replacing it. The wood-framed QX has beespace one one face which avoids these issues, and is the best tool for effective work.

Yesterday I found a colony with a BB stacked with nectar and no brood; predictably, she was upstairs in the feeder. I'd run out of wood QXs and used a green plastic (contract apiary, kit bought by a previous beekeeper) and she must have got through somehow. Either that, or she'd returned from mating into a top entrance bees had chewed in the Swienty super.

The Swienty poly hive is another false economy tool, but that is another story.

 

[inthewoods]

old castle have them for £8..seconds..

 

[ericbeaumont]

old castle have them for £8..seconds..

Check which part is sub-par: wood frame can be repaired, wire alignment cannot.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

be aware than old castle Wire QX's have the wires set in the middle of the frame - beespace each side

 

[inthewoods]

it says some minor oxidisation on metal ..i dont need any thought it was a good buy ..

 

[ericbeaumont]

wires set in the middle of the frame - beespace each side

I knew there was a duff one out there with double bee space: avoid.

a good buy .

Really?