Warm way or cold way?

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Someone told me yesterday that warm way can be useful if you have a bad tempered hive. By not touching the frame by the entrance during inspection (it's not going to have any brood in it anyway) not all of the guard bees will be alerted to your intrusion.

Goodness - they're all rolling out now

 

[Apple]

A Master beekeeper assured me that you must change the orientation from cold to warm and visa versa every time you do the annual shook swarm... matchsticks under the crown-board were only compulsory if set to the warm way as the bees would need to ventillate the hive or chalk brood would set in.

Yeghes da

 

[Erichalfbee]

A Master beekeeper assured me that you must change the orientation from cold to warm and visa versa every time you do the annual shook swarm... matchsticks under the crown-board were only compulsory if set to the warm way as the bees would need to ventillate the hive or chalk brood would set in.

Yeghes da

OK...why? Not why were you assured but why change? Or was it a virtual shook swarm....Which, by the way, is the only kind to do unless you have EFB and then maybe not even then........IMO

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

A Master beekeeper assured me that you must change the orientation from cold to warm and visa versa every time you do the annual shook swarm

I have heard of a few who change their hives to warm way for the winter then back to cold way come spring so that they can keep cool during the summer heatwave

 

[Apple]

I have heard of a few who change their hives to warm way for the winter then back to cold way come spring so that they can keep cool during the summer heatwave

Really???.....Now you are being silly!
Chons da

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Really???.....Now you are being silly!
Chons da

OK, I made up the heatwave bit

 

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[Boston Bees]

Sorry, but I have had to now report this thread for exceeding the maximum allowable levels of "smug"

 

[North End Bees]

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Thank goodness 2017 was ok.
I'd hate to think the whole of the last decade has been so awful for you

 

[user 6228]

Thank goodness 2017 was ok.
I'd hate to think the whole of the last decade has been so awful for you

thanks for pointing out the omission corrected now who said I found banging my head against a brick wall awful, That has to be done by someone.

 

[madasafish]

Someone told me yesterday that warm way can be useful if you have a bad tempered hive. By not touching the frame by the entrance during inspection (it's not going to have any brood in it anyway) not all of the guard bees will be alerted to your intrusion. Having had a 'hive from hell' for a while, anything that keeps them calmer during inspection is worth considering. My hive from hell became sweeties, after 2 requeens.

In early summer ALL my frames have brood in them.

But then I have insulated hives.

I have come late to the middle/end of this thread and am incapable of deciding whether some posts are serious or not- apart from the clearly silly ones of course.

If they are serious, then

 

[Erichalfbee]

If they are serious, then

That’s what happens when you just repeat something you have read rather than actually experienced

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

In early summer ALL my frames have brood in them.

But then I have insulated hives.

I haven't got insulated hives (apart from the roof), but the same as you, all my frames will have brood in by early summer.
Just womdering what methods the others use to ensure theirs don't

 

[Arfermo]

I haven't got insulated hives (apart from the roof), but the same as you, all my frames will have brood in by early summer.
Just womdering what methods the others use to ensure theirs don't

A QE?