Thanks for posting this video. There is so little information out there on brood breaks. I found that my swarms I caught were the only colonies surviving the winters. Last year I created artificial brood breaks, and I was nearly 90% on my colonies over-wintering.
I've had difficulty overwintering hives. This year I had a combination of swarms and splits and the resulting brood breaks have resulted in surprisingly low varroa counts and strong, healthy colonies (by visual accounts.) I have one question...in the first option, how does reuniting the separated brood frames create a brood break if you're simply adding the same frames back. Do you choose frames with nurse bees but without brood to separate the queen? Thanks in advance for your help!
If you use brood breaks/interruption to control varroa, how do you prevent absconding risk increasing while the brood amounts are going down? And what would you do for absconding risk replacing the varroa risk instead?
In my country, Roumania the increase phase begins in mars until june(the peak) in july begins the deacrease phase until november. November to january-february is the dormant phase.
Thanks for posting this video. There is so little information out there on brood breaks. I found that my swarms I caught were the only colonies surviving the winters. Last year I created artificial brood breaks, and I was nearly 90% on my colonies over-wintering.
I've had difficulty overwintering hives. This year I had a combination of swarms and splits and the resulting brood breaks have resulted in surprisingly low varroa counts and strong, healthy colonies (by visual accounts.) I have one question...in the first option, how does reuniting the separated brood frames create a brood break if you're simply adding the same frames back. Do you choose frames with nurse bees but without brood to separate the queen? Thanks in advance for your help!
If you use brood breaks/interruption to control varroa, how do you prevent absconding risk increasing while the brood amounts are going down? And what would you do for absconding risk replacing the varroa risk instead?
How can you tell the differences between phases, specifically population increase and peak?
In my country, Roumania the increase phase begins in mars until june(the peak) in july begins the deacrease phase until november. November to january-february is the dormant phase.