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- From: Randall Austin <ra41717 AT gmail.com>
- To: NC Beekeepers Orange County <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [ocba] Fwd: June Meeting
- Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 21:06:53 -0400
Mark,
Since advice is free & you get what you pay for, I'll offer you some about using triangle escape boards. Many folks complain about them but I love them. But there are three key things you must do in order for them to work: 1) put an empty super under the escape board (so you have honey super, escape board, empty super, brood boxes). If you don't the bees coming out of the super will get jammed up with bees trying to get in and nobody will get anywhere. 2) don't use an escape board with more than two or three supers. You can stagger them on a single hive if you need to but a single one doesn't work well with too many bees. 3) make absolutely sure that there is no brood in the honey supers. The bees absolutely will not leave if they are tending brood. I put escapes on then come back the next day and pull the supers. Extract as soon as possible after that -- that day or the next day. Otherwise you will get lots of little wigglers (small hive beetle larva). You don't have to leave the supers and escapes on the hive for them to work. I often stack my supers on stands next to the hives I'm harvesting. The effect is the same as when they are still on the hive. If I follow all the rules, I end up with very few if any bees in the supers. Randall Austin On 6/6/2013 8:33 PM, Geneva wrote: B5D9697F-7DEA-4EF2-8354-F8D657AD6A2E AT mindspring.com" type="cite">Mark and all |
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[ocba] Fwd: June Meeting,
Geneva, 06/06/2013
- Re: [ocba] Fwd: June Meeting, Randall Austin, 06/06/2013
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