Worker egg laying in drone foundation

[Poly Hive]

LOL just wait for a very warm day and you will...

PH

 

[Fatbee]

LOL just wait for a very warm day and you will...

PH

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No issues last year in relation to structural strength. Wiring helps. Quite a few folk on here are foundationless.

 

[BeeJayBee]

LOL just wait for a very warm day and you will...;

Why?

I use starter strips with jumbo langs. The bees make perfectly nice comb that doesn't fall off the frames even on the hottest of days. It's reinforced with fishing line instead of wire.

Not if a starter strip is used and the hive is level. I struggle to spot the difference to those combs where foundation has been used.

Using a mix of unwired + starter strips and wired foundation I've found they make their own comb quicker, they tend to chew the foundation.

 

[bontbee]

Ditto. I checker-boarded several supers last year with foundation and starter strips, (I'd run out of wired shallow foundation). They leapt onto the strips and had them well drawn before starting on the foundation. They built worker at the top, even below the level of the strip, but then it graded into drone with intermediate cells along the way. Despite no wiring - or fishing line - I spun out some of the starter strip combs; they'd got travel stained , so no good for cut comb.

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

I am pondering the reaction to the box of frames full of wild comb....at every angle to the frame bar the right one....



Waily waily I suspect.



PH

It's easily fixed anyway. The best way to draw foundationless comb is between alternative drawn frames. And as said above; KEEP HIVES LEVEL.


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