Happy Chooks
Loving the herd life
The queen will not lay in it, as the cells are too deep. It would still have to be removed in winter, like a standard super, so the cluster doesn't move up into it and starve.
Bee honey on tap? Easy honey extraction?
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The queen will not lay in it, as the cells are too deep. It would still have to be removed in winter, like a standard super, so the cluster doesn't move up into it and starve.
Bruce
Herd Master
IIRC the cell size and spacing is intentionally made to be something the queen would not lay in. And I think there was mention that you could put a queen excluder between the Flow box and the brood box.
True, I ASSUME they tested the open/close to not break for 'n' operations.
Again I ASSUME they tested that extensively. I don't know anywhere enough about bees to know if they would be picky if the "closed" cell was "off" by a fraction of a mm. After the open/close operation, the bees have to "remake" each cell by resealing the top and bottom of each one. I guess they can "fix" any shape issues.
Happy Chooks
Loving the herd life
I wonder what you do with partial frames? You can't really freeze them, because it would make the plastic brittle. If you extract it, it will ferment with the water content being too high.
