[Freon11]

Do bees stop building comb at any specific time of the year or do they just keep building as long as they have the resources?:scratch:

 

[Andrew Dewey]

My experience is that mid July is the end of brood comb drawing for the year - even when the hive is being fed syrup. They may draw honey frames if there is a flow and they need the space. This is the time of year I start pulling undrawn comb and replacing it with drawn. If the bees haven't expanded to fill boxes like I hoped than I start wondering about queen quality - and if the queen needs to be deposed and the hive combined into another before winter.

 

[beekeeper1756]

This is my first year at keeping bees so I'm walking through each month carefully and watchfully.

My comb production grinds to a complete halt with these new hives if I don't feed syrup.

I started feeding 2:1 in an effort to help them. Out here, right now, there's just nothing for the bees to eat. It's either feed them or they eat their own stores.