Weekly Inspections (Why?)

[For want of a better word]

Heh heh heh. I have forgot that!!
Easier to cut wing.

Those trees are 90 years old.

Cutting wings can lead to superceedure... inspected 4 nucs today that had ( Yellow ) marked and clipped queens laying away nicely... every one superceesed!

Yeghes da

 

[user 6228]

Cutting wings can lead to superceedure... inspected 4 nucs today that had ( Yellow ) marked and clipped queens laying away nicely... every one superceesed!

Yeghes da

While cutting the top off trees can lead to concussion

 

[masterBK]

I clip wings and mark but have not noticed any increase in supersedure rates compared to those that I didn't clip. Also no need to clip a queen in her current year as swarming with current years queens is not common in my experience. Maybe it is all to do with the youth of the queen as bees more likly to ball a young queen if colony disturbed.

 

[For want of a better word]

I clip wings and mark but have not noticed any increase in supersedure rates compared to those that I didn't clip. Also no need to clip a queen in her current year as swarming with current years queens is not common in my experience. Maybe it is all to do with the youth of the queen as bees more likly to ball a young queen if colony disturbed.

Thanks ... food for thought!

Yeghes da