Welcome new-ish beekeeper! A couple tips for you. Take out an outside frame first so you can make room to remove frames without risk of rolling bees. And push those frames together. They are designed to the proper bee space for brood. The reason you got burr comb was the extra space caused by the queen cage. If you leave space the bees will propolise between and itll be hard to get frames out and to fit back in later on. Good luck! You are on your way! I subbed you so i can watch your journey.
I second what was said below. Need to ouch those frames together asap. You will have bur comb everywhere making it difficult to view your frames. The chances of crushing your queen go through the roof. That pollen patty needs to be right on top of the bees don’t leave it off to the side. I would also feed until they draw out the whole 10 frames. No reason not to. Good luck!
Welcome new-ish beekeeper! A couple tips for you. Take out an outside frame first so you can make room to remove frames without risk of rolling bees. And push those frames together. They are designed to the proper bee space for brood. The reason you got burr comb was the extra space caused by the queen cage. If you leave space the bees will propolise between and itll be hard to get frames out and to fit back in later on. Good luck! You are on your way! I subbed you so i can watch your journey.
Thanks for subbing and thanks for the info!!!! The next time I'm in there I will do that.
I second what was said below. Need to ouch those frames together asap. You will have bur comb everywhere making it difficult to view your frames. The chances of crushing your queen go through the roof.
That pollen patty needs to be right on top of the bees don’t leave it off to the side. I would also feed until they draw out the whole 10 frames. No reason not to.
Good luck!