Friday, July 22, 2016

Adding room in the brood box so queen can lay eggs in them

I noticed the other day that my brood chamber had a few frames with uncapped honey and pollen on them...but no eggs or larvae.  So today, I swapped them for a few frames with comb so that the queen has a place to lay eggs. I wanted to do this before they ramp up production again with the goldenrod in a week or two. These were the only deep frames I had with comb on them...at least that's what I thought until I saw I had a few in the freezer from last year.  I guess I should extract what's in there and put them back into production.

I may need the frames from the freezer soon since the two frames I added will need some amount of cleanup. I've heard that it's faster for them to make new comb than to clean up old comb.  Not sure if that's true or not but I do have many frames with  no comb at all.  I thought I'd start off with them next spring to give them plenty of time to build.

Thanks to the "fat bee man" on youtube for the advice.  He's a great resource to supplement the local folks who also provide so much good information and learning.


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