RoseCottage
Field Bee
- Joined
- Dec 29, 2009
- Messages
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- Location
- Near Andover, UK
- Hive Type
- WBC
- Number of Hives
- From 5 to 2 and hopefully a better year
Hi,
We are surrounded by OSR and are beginning to get nervous about the removal of supers with honey in them. We have a couple of questions:
1. Has anyone taken supers from OSR bees yet this year?
We have two supers with frames pretty full but not yet capped, some capping has begun but only on a small scale. Both supers are pretty full.
When is the right time to remove these for spinning?
If and when we do pull them, how long can we leave them before we spin?
Also, Does anyone know whether a standard size brood frame can be spun in the Thornes 2 frame budget spinner? We are moving from standard BB to deep BB at the moment and the girls are packing in stores in the standard BB as they go. We are using this to allow them to hatch out any larvae from frames rotated out of the deep BB. Perhaps I should leave this in for the girls.
All thoughts, advice, welcome. I was hoping to start super removal tonight as I cannot get back to the hive until the weekend at the earliest.
All the best,
Sam.
We are surrounded by OSR and are beginning to get nervous about the removal of supers with honey in them. We have a couple of questions:
1. Has anyone taken supers from OSR bees yet this year?
We have two supers with frames pretty full but not yet capped, some capping has begun but only on a small scale. Both supers are pretty full.
When is the right time to remove these for spinning?
If and when we do pull them, how long can we leave them before we spin?
Also, Does anyone know whether a standard size brood frame can be spun in the Thornes 2 frame budget spinner? We are moving from standard BB to deep BB at the moment and the girls are packing in stores in the standard BB as they go. We are using this to allow them to hatch out any larvae from frames rotated out of the deep BB. Perhaps I should leave this in for the girls.
All thoughts, advice, welcome. I was hoping to start super removal tonight as I cannot get back to the hive until the weekend at the earliest.
All the best,
Sam.