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- čas přidán 27. 04. 2024
- Should you use entrances in your honey supers? I certainly believe so! In this video I talk about the entrances I use on my honey supers. These disks provide a variety of options to the beekeeper. Join me as I show you how!
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On a super the bees will usually pull the wax out further on the frame to fill the extra space, thus more storage for the honey. Easier to uncap too.
Thank you for posting this! I have been trying to figure out how to keep the bees from back filling and get them up into the honey supers. I am ordering the entrance discs right now!
I’m so glad you found it helpful and thank you so much for the super chat! Please let me know how they work out for you. I’ve had real good luck with them. Cheers!
Looks good! I have 2 supers I put guardian upper entrances on and they didn't go in and out of them but used them for drying. I'll probably switch them to disks like yours. I do offset our boxes in the flow though so the bees can go in and out of the rabbet. Gus Mitchell showed this in some of his videos. Thanks for sharing. I'm excited to see how the Hogg half combs get drawn out.
Ah, I’m not familiar with Gus Mitchell. I’ll have to look him up. I figured it’s been done before I just haven’t seen it. It works well for me Brian so I’m curious to hear your experience if you try it!
Be interesting to see if your honey volume is better with the upper entrances compared to those without.
That is a great idea I am going to buy some of these for my hive when payday get here
Thanks! Let me know how it works out for you!!
Entrances on Supers have actually been used for decades, in Europe you can buy poly Supers from Abelo with entrances already built in. Most people in the UK don't use them but some swear by them and your bees clearly like them. 👍
Great info, thanks!!!
awesome. Thanks for the idea.
You bet!
@@beesintheweeds any thought on getting the bees to draw the frames out faster. ( any help I can give them?
@@leeknight9063Just being in a flow will help. The best method is to ensure there is a good coat of wax on the foundation.
I run 2 deep brood boxes, a queen excluder, and medium honey supers with 8 frame spacers in them and get massive frames of honey and beautiful virgin wax cappings to render and sell, and it has worked out well! I may have to try out those disks, I have seen that before, but just haven't tried it yet, but it makes sense by your thought process.
Awesome! Yes, you might want to give them a try. I’ve had real good luck with them! I’d be interested to hear your thoughts and if you notice a difference. Thanks for watching!
I thought about doing that. On half of my hives.
It works well for me!
Thanks!
Oh my, thank you kindly!!! ☺️☺️☺️
Do you see with using the entrance on the honey boxes the brood box is more open for the queen to lay? It seems like my brood boxes are being back filled with nectar.
Yes, and that is the exact idea behind the method. The receiver bees remain in the supers and do not have to travel back and forth between the queen excluder. Of course some food (nectar and pollen) is brought below to feed the brood. To me, this maximizes the efficiency of the hive in foraging and depositing nectar. Keeping the brood chamber open for the queen is exceptionally important when running single brood management as I do.
@@beesintheweeds I appreciate the video and the feedback, I ordered disks last night to give it a shot!
do you leave the entrance open most of the year? I need to know more about this please.
I do not. I keep it open in queen excluder mode during the flow. When the flow ends and it starts to get hot, I switch to ventilation only mode. Then I pull supers and extract. If there is a chance of robbing, I will close them off completely. In rare cases do I leave them wide open.
Am I correct in saying that your setup does not encourage robbing?
You would be correct. 😊
Why do you use a nine frame set up instead of ten frame? Just a curious browser asking, not a bee keeper.
I like using nine. Easier to uncap. I think it’s the sweet spot. No pun intended. Haha
With nine frames the bees make the honeycomb wider so it sticks out past the wood frame. That makes it easier to cut the cappings off and it holds more honey in each box.
Sorry, eight or nine frame instead of 10. I went back and listened to your count again.
No prob. The bees will draw the wax out further with nine frames than ten. It makes uncapping much easier when extracting the honey.