cull

4 hives 2nd year beekeeper- I don't like clutter and carry that housekeeping into my beekeeping. Do you let them build comb and brood under the bottom of the frame or do you cull it (1-2 inches)? It's mostly drone brood that I can see and scattered cups but no capped queen cells. I have been...

Got a 10-frame nuc and installed it yesterday. So I'm not a wannabee anymore, but a newbee! I've decided to go with all mediums, foundationless, and to regress the bees to small/natural size cell. The nuc came from Jeff, about seven miles away, who grafts queens and sells nucs, raising a...