[Earldw]

Couple of quick questions about brood:

1. Do you ever need to change frames from the brood box? Other than disease or other calamity, it seems these should be quite permanent over the life of a colony.

2. Is one 10-frame deep super enough food storage here in zone 8B?

 

[roadkillbobb]

bees do a good job at house keeping and usually clean up what needs to be done, I would think the only time to change out frames are when they get physically damaged or need to be sterilized from disease..
your second question needs more info..it depends on how many bees are in a colony on how much food they need...if you have 4-5 boxes full of bees going into the winter, I would aire on the side of precaution and leave extra food than short them and have them starve, also making fondant to feed during the winter is always a good idea...this is one case of more is better..because in the ice cold you cant open a hive to check for honey stores..

 

[Earldw]

bees do a good job at house keeping and usually clean up what needs to be done, I would think the only time to change out frames are when they get physically damaged or need to be sterilized from disease..
your second question needs more info..it depends on how many bees are in a colony on how much food they need...if you have 4-5 boxes full of bees going into the winter, I would aire on the side of precaution and leave extra food than short them and have them starve, also making fondant to feed during the winter is always a good idea...this is one case of more is better..because in the ice cold you cant open a hive to check for honey stores..

Thanks Bob,
My online research left me with the impression that the further north one is, the more reserve capacity is required with northern locales using 2 deeps, Southern locales using 1 deep, and some using 1 deep/ 1 medium. In that we had stuff blooming in December and we have stuff blooming now, there is almost always something in bloom.

 

[Gypsi]

Thanks Bob,
My online research left me with the impression that the further north one is, the more reserve capacity is required with northern locales using 2 deeps, Southern locales using 1 deep, and some using 1 deep/ 1 medium. In that we had stuff blooming in December and we have stuff blooming now, there is almost always something in bloom.

something in bloom and warm enough to fly are not the same things. I've had bees starve in North Texas, had them at a friend's house who was supposed to feed during the fall, he figured they'd be fine, they died. The stuff in bloom wasn't adequate. Also when you have drought the nectar evaporates quickly. Drought equals dearth. Trying to figure out where you are. I run double deeps on one hive that tends to have a lot of bees, single deep with at least one medium super of honey for the winter on my Beeweaver hive that clusters small. I didn't rob at all this fall, took enough honey for me in July and left the rest for the August dearth and winter stores. I don't have time to sell honey, I still have 2021 honey left, although most of it is now the fall honey from 2021. Plus 2022.

From 2 hives I pull about 5 gallons and all of 2022 came from Beeweaveers because the big hive swarmed and didn't have enough bees to work our big flow in the spring. Beeweaver hive more than made up for it.

 

[Earldw]

Excellent information Gypsi; thanks!

 

[Earldw]

And on the topic of locations, where the heck is the option of putting your location at the bottom of my post such as you have?

 

[roadkillbobb]

And on the topic of locations, where the heck is the option of putting your location at the bottom of my post such as you have?

click on your avitar top right corner of page and goto account settings and up top you can enter it..6 lines down

 

[Earldw]

click on your avitar top right corner of page and goto account settings and up top you can enter it..6 lines down

Not seeing that as an option:

 

[roadkillbobb]

Not seeing that as an option:
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are you using a phone or home PC?

 

[roadkillbobb]

 

[Earldw]

are you using a phone or home PC?

Ipad.

 

[roadkillbobb]

 

[roadkillbobb]

upper right where it say new in the white circle then my avitar, I click on that..I have no idea if you have a phone...lol

 

[roadkillbobb]

I see it on your screen shot, same as mine.. left click

 

[Earldw]

Clicked on New but still no option. Might just not be available for iPad users. No biggie, I’ll take the convenience of my iPad and just tell folks where I live😉

 

[roadkillbobb]

Clicked on New but still no option. Might just not be available for iPad users. No biggie, I’ll take the convenience of my iPad and just tell folks where I live😉

dont click on the new, left click on your avitar that is showing in that right hand corner, not the avitar on your posts...then goto account settings..

 

[roadkillbobb]

 

[Earldw]

dont click on the new, left click on your avitar that is showing in that right hand corner, not the avitar on your posts...then goto account settings..
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That was it! Thanks Bob.

 

[roadkillbobb]

my pleasure...

 

[Gypsi]

Very good!