To all,
First off, I hope that everyone is regularly visiting the ECWBA blog at http://ourbeeblog.blogspot.com/ Fred is doing us a great service by posting interesting, informative, and timely information. And thanks to everyone that is contributing to the site and posting comments. Together we are accumulating a lot of knowledge, information and tips. Package bees should be well along now and should be inspected for laying position within the hive. If the queens are laying in the top brood chamber box it is a good idea to reverse the hive bodies. Remember that she works up and if she runs out of room it’s time to swarm. By reversing the bodies you’re putting the frames with emerged/emerging brood on top so the cells will be empty for more eggs. If left below the bees may fill them with honey so she will have nowhere to lay, and she rarely travels down anyway. This applies not just to new colonies but to any colony. I had to reverse two overwintered colonies yesterday for the third time this season and had already split one of them. I’m not complaining.
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