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Hello Fello Warréors,


I made an unwise box removal in early fall, and put it back on the hive after killing much brood by chilling. There was lots of nectar in it, and minimal honey.

All that...

I spoke a bit too soon about my boxes.

Because I used the escape boards (with the boxes off the hive stack), I waited several days before peering underneath.

I should have done so sooner (like...

On one box, all the combs went catty corner, and not lined up with the top bars. There's pretty much zero work using the escape board. I'd rather do all of my comb cutting and pulling without bees...

We only have 3 hives, all warrés.

Two have enough honey to allow us to rob the top box.

We're using clearer type boards.

We removed the top box, placed it on the ground on a solid board....

That would be great, thanks.

Also, did your 3 gallons come from two warré boxes, then?

Looks like a nice harvest. Can you comment on your clearing board, how well it worked, and maybe a picture or two of it?

There can be a lot of reasons for a small cluster. Aside from that, many of us add another box to the bottom when the comb reaches halfway down.

Adding a box to the bottom is called nadiring.
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Just top bars, here, but I haven't harvested yet. All my harvesting done last year were lang boxes and frames that I let grow down into warrés.

Makes total sense now. Thanks!

I'm a bit confused.

I was under the impression that when we harvest a box from our Warré stack that it should be completely full of capped honey. If that's the case, then there won't be any...

We're in Southern Missouri.

This colony of italians was adapted down to Warré boxes last year. They've got 3 or 4 more combs of honey left in their top box.


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