The recording of the September General Meeting is here. The discussion included:
- When to give up on a hive (too few frames), and combine it with another hive.
- What to do with “wet” frames – that is, frames that have just been extracted and are coated with honey.
- Robbing screens (see below).
- Better to harvest honey early in the morning – less chance of creating a robbing frenzy.
- Ways to get you bees out of your supers when removing them to harvest honey:
- Blow them out.
- Brush.
- Fume board – Fisher Bee-Quick.
- Running supers less than full. E.g., 9 frames in a 10 frame super. The comb is deeper, and easier to remove with an uncapping knife.
- Mead production. Arthur’s recommendation: don’t use Tar Weed honey.
Robbing Screens
