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They drew out the wax way past the frame since I am running 9frames in my supers. I run plastic foundation so I cut the wax off both sides and put them into an extractor. The cut off wax and honey is also processed in my cappings tank.

How cold do your winters get? Pretty soon I’ll begin winter prep :(

@@zeesbees Im in the mountains so it can get pretty cold it's -3celcius / 26f tonight but we have got down to -20 Celcius/-4f in the past 😂

Thank you! I’m in the Fox Valley region of Wisconsin

Thank you!

Fox Valley area of Wisconsin

In the Appleton area, so far the weather has been pretty good, wet, but not like down by you. I hope you hit a nice dry spell down there!

Italian

I run two deep brood boxes, if the queen had packed both with brood I may consider splitting, if the two brood boxes are full and there is a nectar flow and there are no signs of swarming I put on honey supers. This is what I choose to do, there are a lot of people running single deep colonies

The comment was made in jest… the “work” of trying to find a queen to mate with

@@zeesbees ahh. As a newcomer, it flew right over my head.

Maybe hard at finding virgin queens out there?

Correct, they are coming back after a day of looking for a queen to mate with. Drones will make a bunch of flights in hopes of finding a queen that will essentially end his life

Thank you!

Hello there!

Two coats of PPG Proluxe 072

I believe this was just an emergency cell given the time of year.

Awesome, thank you!

Drawing out is when the bees build wax comb on the plastic foundation. They draw out the wax to then store nectar, pollen, brood.

I have all Italian, I know some in this area have Russian, but most are Italian, carniolans, and buckfast.

I think this is a very good possibility, I did requeen one of my hives using a queen cell. I haven’t been going into the hive to allow for time to go on mating flight and lay.

She stays near the bottom and bottom left, you can see some bees following her.

She’s also the biggest bee there

Awesome! Did you have drawn comb or fresh foundation?

@@zeesbees Drawn in the nuc but fresh foundation for the rest of the box

I like to treat when getting a nuc since they are likely to have significant mite exposure in the large bee yards. I pull well before adding any honey supers and treat OA vapor in fall 3-4 times. I was able to get mites loads below 1% and had 4 out of 4 hives survive a Wisconsin winter.

4 total! Not the best weather but all the Nucs looked great

It’s essentially a pillow case with pine shavings to absorb moisture. I switch them several times as they become saturated.

My experience with “The Midwest” or Northern US states is that the flow doesn’t really stop till September. Unlike the south there isn’t typically a terrible dearth. I find that there is a heavy flow around June and then a heavy flow when golden rod hits. September is what I would say is the end of the flow.

@@zeesbees thank you so much I appreciate you zee

That was my initial thought too(two separate hives) but when the cluster which had been under the hive moved to the box and started moving in I realized it was one hive with one queen. They are doing great in their new hive. Thanks for watching!

@@zeesbees Thanks, I missed that.

Central Wisconsin