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One or two brood boxes, Honey flow, when to super and collateral damage.
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<blockquote data-quote="Stephen Horsley" data-source="post: 9238" data-attributes="member: 491"><p>Supers are filling up fast. After placing a super to reduce congestion and try to avoid a swarm back in October it was filling slowly but put a second last week and it is filling fast. Just put a second on Hive 2 with old queen and half original hive. Both are building and working well. I read in Practical Beekeeping that it is normally two brood boxes. I am working with one. Is there a normal? I'm guessing two brood boxes you just have more bees and more supers therefore more honey? Just curious.</p><p>So when supers are about 75% full put a second underneath and just keep adding when they fill? After todays inspection I was surprised at how fast this is happening.</p><p>When I first started out here I was trying not to harm one bee but it is becoming evident this is not possible. I'm guessing (again) collateral damage is a normal process of the bee death rate? I clean the tops and bottoms of frames, the lid and queen excluder of wax on each inspection - is this good practice?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stephen Horsley, post: 9238, member: 491"] Supers are filling up fast. After placing a super to reduce congestion and try to avoid a swarm back in October it was filling slowly but put a second last week and it is filling fast. Just put a second on Hive 2 with old queen and half original hive. Both are building and working well. I read in Practical Beekeeping that it is normally two brood boxes. I am working with one. Is there a normal? I'm guessing two brood boxes you just have more bees and more supers therefore more honey? Just curious. So when supers are about 75% full put a second underneath and just keep adding when they fill? After todays inspection I was surprised at how fast this is happening. When I first started out here I was trying not to harm one bee but it is becoming evident this is not possible. I'm guessing (again) collateral damage is a normal process of the bee death rate? I clean the tops and bottoms of frames, the lid and queen excluder of wax on each inspection - is this good practice? [/QUOTE]
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