Okay posted here in commercial to avoid upsetting some...
Recently Honey housholder mentioned he does away with his hives each year and takes all the honey....
This year the honey flow is so bad, my hives on scales are LOSING weight.....
that said. I am wondering how you clean out the hive, and when you decide its time??
my first thought was to off the queen and allow all the brood to hatch and the bees die off, but that seems to me to open the window to SHB and wax moths???
Dumping them seems to leave brood in the frames so???
I belive I will have to destroy at least half my hives to allow me to save any at all.....
And no feeding this long would not make sense from a monetary viewpoint.
Recently Honey housholder mentioned he does away with his hives each year and takes all the honey....
This year the honey flow is so bad, my hives on scales are LOSING weight.....
that said. I am wondering how you clean out the hive, and when you decide its time??
my first thought was to off the queen and allow all the brood to hatch and the bees die off, but that seems to me to open the window to SHB and wax moths???
Dumping them seems to leave brood in the frames so???
I belive I will have to destroy at least half my hives to allow me to save any at all.....
And no feeding this long would not make sense from a monetary viewpoint.