[ocba] Leave as is or Restack

David Langham david_langham at hotmail.com
Wed Nov 2 21:27:49 EST 2005


Well I did not mean to do it.  In fact, I did not even know that it had 
happened until the next day.  I was feeding them with a jar feeder and the 
syrup dripped on to the cluster and it was very cold that night and they 
froze.


>From: "G. Blake Alexander, O.D." <baiiii at bellsouth.net>
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>Subject: Re: [ocba] Leave as is or Restack
>Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 19:18:20 -0500
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>DAVID:   Why did you wet on your own bees?????
>Best,
>Blake
>
>David Langham wrote:
>
>>Be very careful not to get your bees wet.  Wetness kills bees.  I know.  I 
>>did it!
>>
>>
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>>>From: "G. Blake Alexander, O.D." <baiiii at bellsouth.net>
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>>>Subject: Re: [ocba] Leave as is or Restack
>>>Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:54:52 -0500
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>>>Wayne:  If you don't plan to winter-feed, you should leave the bottom
>>>two supers on the hive.  If the upper of the two supeers has a
>>>significeint amount of CAPPED honey, lkightly scrape the capping off to
>>>allow the bees access.  Happy winter!
>>>Best,
>>>Blake (Blake Alerxander)  Chapel Hill
>>>
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>>>>4 supers compose my current hive configuration, they are filled as
>>>>follows from the top down.
>>>>
>>>>4th - Medium - capped Honey - full
>>>>3rd -Medium - capped Honey, brood,pollen,uncapped brood,pollen,nectar
>>>>2nd-Medium - capped Honey, brood,pollen, uncapped brood,nectar,pollen
>>>>1st -Deep -Capped Honey,pollen,uncapped nectar,pollen- NO BROOD
>>>>
>>>>Should this stack be rearranged, or left as is for the winter ?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks for your suggestions,
>>>>
>>>>Wayne
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