deadcertie
New Bee
- Joined
- Aug 18, 2022
- Messages
- 27
- Reaction score
- 6
- Location
- Dymchurch
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 3
This is my second year of beekeeping (my dad was an avid beekeeper) and there is a question that I cannot find the answer to online. It is a multi-pronged question.
So, my situation:
- Hive 1: wet supers have been returned in 1 super box. Another super underneath (above brood and QX) with mainly uncapped and SFs in progress.
- Hive 2: very weak: kept losing the queen (I have racked my brain as to the why) but have been providing it with brood + eggs from other hives and a couple of queens just hatched so keeping everything crossed. Going to leave well alone for the next two weeks.
- Hive 3: Swarm hive. Same as Hive 1: 1 super extracted, one super in progress.
I intend on nadiring (is there such a word?) the un-extracted supers for the winter and giving the surplus supers (after freezing for a couple of days) as nadir for Hive 2 (the weak one) as they have no stores in super at all.
The BIG question: during the upcoming 6 weeks of varroa treatment: what I am supposed to do with all the supers? Do people just take them off and store them safe from predators? Surely, if you have tonnes of hives, that is impossible (thinking transport, removing all the bees within (that's a lot of rhombusses!), storage)? If you nadir supers, is that perceived safe for consumption for the following year? Surely not?
Thanks all!
So, my situation:
- Hive 1: wet supers have been returned in 1 super box. Another super underneath (above brood and QX) with mainly uncapped and SFs in progress.
- Hive 2: very weak: kept losing the queen (I have racked my brain as to the why) but have been providing it with brood + eggs from other hives and a couple of queens just hatched so keeping everything crossed. Going to leave well alone for the next two weeks.
- Hive 3: Swarm hive. Same as Hive 1: 1 super extracted, one super in progress.
I intend on nadiring (is there such a word?) the un-extracted supers for the winter and giving the surplus supers (after freezing for a couple of days) as nadir for Hive 2 (the weak one) as they have no stores in super at all.
The BIG question: during the upcoming 6 weeks of varroa treatment: what I am supposed to do with all the supers? Do people just take them off and store them safe from predators? Surely, if you have tonnes of hives, that is impossible (thinking transport, removing all the bees within (that's a lot of rhombusses!), storage)? If you nadir supers, is that perceived safe for consumption for the following year? Surely not?
Thanks all!