StuntKid
New Bee
Hey everyone!
So 5 weeks ago I received my first nuc (5 frame)
Hadn’t bothered to realise they were coming on national frames. I have a flow hive so they use Langstroth frames.
I broke apart my spare langstroth frames and cable tied them to the nuc frames to make them fit.
5 weeks on and all frames (foundation-less) were full so I added the super but then for the last 2 weeks the weather in Manchester has been awful so they haven’t had chance to use it.
I’d noticed that they were starting to build comb sideways through the national frames as they were leaving a big gap.
Yesterday I decided to remove the super and try to start the process of replacing the national frames with new langstroth frames (with wax foundation)
I moved the 5 nuc frames to the super box after removing enough flow frames and then put the queen excluder below it after adding the new frames to the brood box underneath. I had to elastic band the comb they’d built sideways behind the national frames into a frame of its own too.
I then added a rapid feeder with 1:1 syrup and Hive Alive above that.
I know this would have been pretty traumatic for them but what are the chances of them being ok and what do I need to look out for moving forward until they possibly settle?
(My only other concern now is that the super has a gap due to me not being able to fit another flow frame in to keep everyone tightly pressed together)
So 5 weeks ago I received my first nuc (5 frame)
Hadn’t bothered to realise they were coming on national frames. I have a flow hive so they use Langstroth frames.
I broke apart my spare langstroth frames and cable tied them to the nuc frames to make them fit.
5 weeks on and all frames (foundation-less) were full so I added the super but then for the last 2 weeks the weather in Manchester has been awful so they haven’t had chance to use it.
I’d noticed that they were starting to build comb sideways through the national frames as they were leaving a big gap.
Yesterday I decided to remove the super and try to start the process of replacing the national frames with new langstroth frames (with wax foundation)
I moved the 5 nuc frames to the super box after removing enough flow frames and then put the queen excluder below it after adding the new frames to the brood box underneath. I had to elastic band the comb they’d built sideways behind the national frames into a frame of its own too.
I then added a rapid feeder with 1:1 syrup and Hive Alive above that.
I know this would have been pretty traumatic for them but what are the chances of them being ok and what do I need to look out for moving forward until they possibly settle?
(My only other concern now is that the super has a gap due to me not being able to fit another flow frame in to keep everyone tightly pressed together)