margob99
House Bee
- Joined
- Nov 15, 2009
- Messages
- 400
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- Location
- Amersham
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 2
My last two inspections on the primary hive (national brood-and-a-half plus 2 honey supers above the QX) have revealed that the bees are focusing all efforts in the honey supers on the first one above the QX. While there are bees on the foundation in the very top Honey super, they're not drawing it at all.
Yesterday, the first honey super above the QX was AB-SO-LUTELY jampacked full of honey (weighed an absolute ton). So I thought I would kind of try and experiment. I don't want to harvest one super at a time; I want to harvest them all at the same time. So I swopped the 2 top supers around.
Now the very full one is at the very top, and the second empty one is just above the QX. While I know that in general bees travel upwards, and like to work in the top structures, I thought I would try this to see if the bees will now draw the unworked super.
What do you think?
Footnote: Once again, this colony was absolutely aggressive/defensive as all hell. Bees just went absolutely insane around me while inspecting, and some followed me all the way up to the house and were still there 20 minutes afterwards. I am seriously going to have to re-queen. My second colony were pussycats by comparison.
Yesterday, the first honey super above the QX was AB-SO-LUTELY jampacked full of honey (weighed an absolute ton). So I thought I would kind of try and experiment. I don't want to harvest one super at a time; I want to harvest them all at the same time. So I swopped the 2 top supers around.
Now the very full one is at the very top, and the second empty one is just above the QX. While I know that in general bees travel upwards, and like to work in the top structures, I thought I would try this to see if the bees will now draw the unworked super.
What do you think?
Footnote: Once again, this colony was absolutely aggressive/defensive as all hell. Bees just went absolutely insane around me while inspecting, and some followed me all the way up to the house and were still there 20 minutes afterwards. I am seriously going to have to re-queen. My second colony were pussycats by comparison.