CATDOLL : CATDOLL: When is the best time to add supers to a bee colony?

1. When is the best time to add supers to a bee colony?

When the number of bees in the bottom box reaches 10 batches, and the number of bees is larger than the batch, add a super box.

When there are two queens in a bee colony, it is best to add a super.

2. How to add a super to Italian bees?

Leave six combs in the nest box, take two brood combs that are about to leave the nest and put them in the super, and put two honey combs on both sides of the brood combs.

3. How to add a super to a single-queen colony of Italian bees?

Italian bee single queen colony plus super box must have 8 full honeycombs, and the iron screen cover must be fully covered. In addition, the super box should be taken from the nest box 1 to 2 frames of sealed lids, plus a honey comb and one or two empty combs near the box.

4. Can a shallow super be added to a standard Chinese beehive? How to add it?

The shallow super for Chinese bees should be added during the high honey flow period, with a flat queen excluder and a super or nest frame.

5. How to add supers to a double queen colony of Chinese bees during the rapeseed flowering period?

Put all the egg and larvae in the lower box, and the other larvae in the upper box.

6. Can adding supers to spring breeding of Chinese bees delay the swarming of the colony?

Yes. The reason why bees are divided into groups is that when the bee colony develops to a certain stage, the number of bees is huge, and the space in the beehive is relatively narrow, and the beehive is humid and hot.

If you add a super box on top of a crowded and narrow breeding box, on the one hand, it will expand the space of the beehive. On the other hand, it can effectively improve the high temperature and humidity environment in the beehive. This can also play a certain role in delaying swarming.

Adding supers during the spring breeding season can certainly delay the swarming of the bee colony, because the space is large enough at this time, and the worker bees are busy collecting honey, so they have no time to build a queen cell.