suavecarve
New Bee
- Joined
- Mar 10, 2012
- Messages
- 10
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- Location
- Headley
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 2
Hi guys, I thought I d give a TBH a go and managed to get a small swarm 3 weeks ago and then went on holiday. Got back Saturday and was intrigued to see how they got on and they have 5 combs started with the first one halfway across but going right down to the bottom. My conundrum is there are potentially 26 combs which I would love to fill before the winter but they arent even going to get close. My theory is to fill as much as I can with polystyrene to fill up the gap so they dont have as much to warm up. Am i I on the right lines or jsut plain mad? Also how should I treat for varroa ? My theory on this one is to remove one of the closest bars to the combs, raise the roof up an inch and put the apiguard on that, or am i mad to do that ?
Advice is greatly appreciated.
Advice is greatly appreciated.