Hi all.
I constructed my double nucs in the following manner.
I took a standard deep hive body and divided it in half by cutting a slot in the center that is the same width as the plastic sheet that is used to measure mites. then i cut the plastic sheet to size and used that to seperate the deep hive body into two nucs.
Each half had it own entrance on opposite sides of the box. Each nuc was seperated by a solid botom and top boards. ventalation was made possible by using holes cut in the bottoms and tops of each hive that was then covered with window screen.
I think that the bees can still smell eachother even though they are seperated by a plastic sheet and can not reach eachother.
My first round at grafting I used 3 of the above boxes to put my capped queen cells in. However, only 1 queen from each box hatched/mated and started laying eggs.
I am now wondering if the hives could smell eachother and the workers torn down the queen cells themselves?
I quess i am just looking to see if I should atempt this type of nuc box configuration in the future?
Thanks
John.
I constructed my double nucs in the following manner.
I took a standard deep hive body and divided it in half by cutting a slot in the center that is the same width as the plastic sheet that is used to measure mites. then i cut the plastic sheet to size and used that to seperate the deep hive body into two nucs.
Each half had it own entrance on opposite sides of the box. Each nuc was seperated by a solid botom and top boards. ventalation was made possible by using holes cut in the bottoms and tops of each hive that was then covered with window screen.
I think that the bees can still smell eachother even though they are seperated by a plastic sheet and can not reach eachother.
My first round at grafting I used 3 of the above boxes to put my capped queen cells in. However, only 1 queen from each box hatched/mated and started laying eggs.
I am now wondering if the hives could smell eachother and the workers torn down the queen cells themselves?
I quess i am just looking to see if I should atempt this type of nuc box configuration in the future?
Thanks
John.