Using Drone foundation in supers?

[Fraise]

Does anyone have experience of using drone cell foundation in supers?
If the bees accept it and fill it with honey there would be more space for the honey in each frame.

 

[Finman]

Does anyone have experience of using drone cell foundation in supers?
If the bees accept it and fill it with honey there would be more space for the honey in each frame.

You have big problem when you cannot use those combs as normal brood combs.

That will be very unflexible system and it will not give to you more honey.

However you need certain space of hive to bees and to ripering nectar.

 

[enrico]

The difference in the amount of honey is minute. If you melt the wax of a drone foundation and a worker foundation it is nearly identical! But.......some swear by it!
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[Obee1]

Use the search function here and you will find quite a few threads about this. General opinion seems to be it is a good thing. More honey stored in less wax

 

[Finman]

NMore honey stored in less wax

Nonsense.

Beeks in this forum do not much understand about wax and honey relations. Or how bees consume energy when they are forced to do vain work in the hive.

Worst is that you burn valuable wax as candles.

 

[Obee1]

You have big problem when you cannot use those combs as normal brood combs.

That will be very unflexible system and it will not give to you more honey.

However you need certain space of hive to bees and to ripering nectar.

Seems to me most peeps on here use different sizes for brood chambers and honey supers so little opportunity for swapping combs around the hive

 

[Finman]

Seems to me most peeps on here use different sizes for brood chambers and honey supers so little opportunity for swapping combs around the hive

They do, but it is their own choice.
Choices have nothing to do with using brains.

Brood and half is normal to use as brood space, but using douple brood is more odd than tralling to moon.

You may use mere supers as brood boxed, as many do.

 

[Finman]

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Most beeks think that queen excluder brings honey to the hive. Brood combs are new in this sector.

i can tell that good pastures is main thing, which give yield to the hive.

 

[Hebeegeebee]

The difference is miniscule - less likely to have pollen n drone comb.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Seems to me most peeps on here use different sizes for brood chambers and honey supers so little opportunity for swapping combs around the hive

Ah....but if you are on brood and a half?

 

[Finman]

The difference is miniscule - less likely to have pollen n drone comb.

If you give enough brood box space, bees love to store pollen near brood. Pollen is more valuable than honey.

Beeks tend to order, what bees should do. But they should first learn what that wild bug tend to do with its own. Then they encourage bees to do things, what bees do not do. Like build the whole hive full of dronecombs.

Note, that bees will not draw dronecombs after midd summer even if they need honey combs.

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