Beeing
New Bee
Hello
This is my first season keeping bees. I have two hives (national and a poly). I received both as nucs and have been feeding them, in accordance to advice I was given, continuously with syrup (1:1) ever since I got them (end June and July) to help both hives draw comb including in the supers.
I am now planning of putting Api guards on them but am not sure what to do with the stores in the supers (as I understand the supers should not stay on during the treatment).
Now, do I take the supers out while I do the Api guard treatment and consequently put the supers back on as stores for the winter? Or is that going to make the hives colder with larger space for them to warm up? In case I should not put the supers back on then what do I do with the stores (which I gather are mainly sugar syrup and wouldn’t be harvested in any case)?
Maybe I should have stopped feeding when I added the supers on?
The status of the hives are as follows:
National:
2 x brood box (all frames except 1-2 drawn, full of stores, brood)
2 x Super (Super 1: 8 frames capped, Super 2: 6 frames not capped)
Poly:
2 x brood box (3 empty frames in each. Otherwise drawn, full of stores/brood)
1 x super (8 drawn with stores, some capped)
Hope this makes sense.
Any thoughts would be very much appreciated !
This is my first season keeping bees. I have two hives (national and a poly). I received both as nucs and have been feeding them, in accordance to advice I was given, continuously with syrup (1:1) ever since I got them (end June and July) to help both hives draw comb including in the supers.
I am now planning of putting Api guards on them but am not sure what to do with the stores in the supers (as I understand the supers should not stay on during the treatment).
Now, do I take the supers out while I do the Api guard treatment and consequently put the supers back on as stores for the winter? Or is that going to make the hives colder with larger space for them to warm up? In case I should not put the supers back on then what do I do with the stores (which I gather are mainly sugar syrup and wouldn’t be harvested in any case)?
Maybe I should have stopped feeding when I added the supers on?
The status of the hives are as follows:
National:
2 x brood box (all frames except 1-2 drawn, full of stores, brood)
2 x Super (Super 1: 8 frames capped, Super 2: 6 frames not capped)
Poly:
2 x brood box (3 empty frames in each. Otherwise drawn, full of stores/brood)
1 x super (8 drawn with stores, some capped)
Hope this makes sense.
Any thoughts would be very much appreciated !