Hi Laurance. We too are having superb weather here in NYC. I have what looks like a honey bound hive, which is a double deep brood hive. Yet, the hive has over 8 frame of capped drone and worker cells. So is this really honey bound? Won't the new brood that emerges give the queen places to lay? And they I should add space up above--correct?
So is the brood box always considered that lowest box? I have two 10 frame deeps off a 5 frame nuke I installed about 7 weeks ago and added a super about 10 days ago. I did notice quite a bit of honey on the upper deep box.
That was really useful. Can I ask..... is your last harvest before you treat for varroa? when do you start treatment for varroa? Do you remove all your supers before you treat? Do you leave a honey super on them for the winter. How do you store your supers and where. Sorry for all the questions
Hey Laurence, hope alls well and good. Ive no room to add my honey bound brood frames, to another hive or split, could the nectar be spun out and then add that emptied frame back into the brood box?. Thanks 👍
hi Lawrence, thank you for your brilliant videos which we are finding invaluable. we got a Nuc in June ( our first bees). within a short while they were covering 8 frames ( we found that quite overwhelming but getting used to it now) so added a super 2 weeks ago in case they were running out of space. there is VERY little going on in the super but the stores in the brood box are getting tight and they are showing no signs of moving stores up or even drawing comb on the super foundation. ( we have a mix of drawn and foundation up there) . to add to the issue they are superseding. we heard piping queen yesterday and saw patchy brood on three frames plus sighted our old queen. do we carry on and do the manipulation you have just described once they have superseded and time has been given for the new queen to mate. we do still have some drones in the hive. we are in Southern Scotland. any tips gratefully received .
Tricky without seeing the state of the brood. Shame they are trying to supersede. Shouldnt really be happening with a first year nuc. Id remove the super for sure. Its all getting a bit late. Main focus is ensuring you have a properly mated queen going into winter or they will dwindle to nothing
I've a colony like that, got them last year as a nuc expanded well but no honey which we didn't mind last year this year they keep filling brood box, we removed frames. Ended up removing QE for a week and they went up into super and started building out foundation but as soon as QE back on they stopped, going to change out queen next year see if a change of genetics works
I just started working with another person's bees this week and found they were honeybound BIG TIME. Thanks for your advice.
Those neck fans really help on a hot humid day.
Hi Laurance. We too are having superb weather here in NYC.
I have what looks like a honey bound hive, which is a double deep brood hive. Yet, the hive has over 8 frame of capped drone and worker cells. So is this really honey bound? Won't the new brood that emerges give the queen places to lay? And they I should add space up above--correct?
So is the brood box always considered that lowest box? I have two 10 frame deeps off a 5 frame nuke I installed about 7 weeks ago and added a super about 10 days ago. I did notice quite a bit of honey on the upper deep box.
That was really useful. Can I ask..... is your last harvest before you treat for varroa?
when do you start treatment for varroa?
Do you remove all your supers before you treat? Do you leave a honey super on them for the winter.
How do you store your supers and where.
Sorry for all the questions
Hey Laurence, hope alls well and good.
Ive no room to add my honey bound brood frames, to another hive or split, could the nectar be spun out and then add that emptied frame back into the brood box?.
Thanks 👍
Yes. That would work - or just remove and store ready for extraction and add foundation back in 😉
@BlackMountainHoney Sweet, thanks Laurence
hi Lawrence, thank you for your brilliant videos which we are finding invaluable. we got a Nuc in June ( our first bees). within a short while they were covering 8 frames ( we found that quite overwhelming but getting used to it now) so added a super 2 weeks ago in case they were running out of space. there is VERY little going on in the super but the stores in the brood box are getting tight and they are showing no signs of moving stores up or even drawing comb on the super foundation. ( we have a mix of drawn and foundation up there) . to add to the issue they are superseding. we heard piping queen yesterday and saw patchy brood on three frames plus sighted our old queen. do we carry on and do the manipulation you have just described once they have superseded and time has been given for the new queen to mate. we do still have some drones in the hive. we are in Southern Scotland. any tips gratefully received .
Tricky without seeing the state of the brood. Shame they are trying to supersede. Shouldnt really be happening with a first year nuc. Id remove the super for sure. Its all getting a bit late. Main focus is ensuring you have a properly mated queen going into winter or they will dwindle to nothing
Do you keep single brood chambers or double brood chambers???
Mixture
I've got a brood box honey bound-ish, and a partialy empty super on top, why aren't they taking the honey up?
Colony not big enough to cover the space
I've a colony like that, got them last year as a nuc expanded well but no honey which we didn't mind last year this year they keep filling brood box, we removed frames.
Ended up removing QE for a week and they went up into super and started building out foundation but as soon as QE back on they stopped, going to change out queen next year see if a change of genetics works
Really helpful video that just came across long hive getting honey bound
Confirmed the plan thanks
Is it too late in the year to be removing frames in the brood box to fix this? Only have two brood frames at the moment
No. Maybe not as drastic but just remove them one at a time and add back into drawn combs
Thanks
Hey Paul. Thanks for the ST. Very much appreciated. All the best with your bees for the season :D
What if I extract the honey. I'm honey bound in a hive. Please help. I have given them a super. They have no interest.
Great video, thanks.
Thanks Peter
Annoying buzz on sound is it the fan spoils your presentation sorry 😞
yeah sorry. Won't have it on again. Completely forgot it was even there