regress

It's just about time for me to add my second deep brood box this coming weekend. Right now I have standard foundation (not sure the exact size) in my first brood box. I did some reading about the potential benefits of small-cell and would like to give it a try. So my question is this: Can I...

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...

If a top hive body containing Honey Super Cell was packed with winter stores wouldn't the bees be well on their way to being Small Cell when the cluster moves up in the winter? Acceptance of the HSC would be less of an issue since there's no place to go... And the Super Cell would have been...