I live in the cold weather of Wi. I run two deeps with 10 frames. This year I had all my hive live through our -17 below winter
What I was wondering could I run 9 frames less crowding in both deeps
Thanks
Paul
I agree w/ Mike. Running 9 frames is one frame less for the queen to lay in and the bees to store honey in. Properly built supers are designed to hold ten frames.
Honey supers are built the same, but beekeepers often run 9, and some 8, frames in them so the comb is drawn out deeper and is easier to uncap. There is also the idea that often you will get more honey out of a 9 frame medium or shallow than you will from the same super w/ ten frames. I guess because the outsides of the outside frames may not get filled. So you have the same number of filled sides, but they are closer together and therefore not filled w/ as much honey.
I also like the concept of having more brood cells for the queen to lie in, plus crowding hasn't been an issue for me but you do want to make sure you work from the outside in when removing frames to avoid rolling bees.
I know this is a subject where different strokes work for different folks, 10 has always worked for me.
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