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-Deleted- I misread the post.In the interest of transferring a Lang to a TBH, I've read that putting in Lang frames upside down causes bees to abandon the frames one brood hatches and move to new comb.
True of False in your experience or estimation?
Thanks for your help,
Adam
My only thought would be to put a new bottom board onto the box you want to clear, only put it on upside down, then flip them over and stack the rest on top, right-side up... but the frames would still shift quite a bit, so that's a good question.Just kidding, but I am wondering how do you accomplish this?
False, or rather it didn't work for me. The queen didn't lay in them [but I had transferred my frames to the outside or end] but they did not clean out the honey/pollen.I've read that putting in Lang frames upside down causes bees to abandon the frames once brood hatches and move to new comb. True of False in your experience or estimation?
This is what I did. I might add that I put mine as an outside frame [as opposed to the middle of the box] since the queen is less likely to lay in the frames on the outside of the boxes.Put the inverted frame on the box below (right on the top bar of the corresponding frame below), and then carefully thread that frame's box down over it and into place?
I was converting from deeps to mediums and from large cell to small cell. What worked best was just moving the frames to the outside on the ends. Then, when they contained no brood or eggs I pulled them and set them outside for any and all to rob. Probably not the healthy avenue to take as if you have a pathogen in that one coloney you could spread it to others, but it eventually worked for me.I want to go to all mediums, this looks to be a quicker method than rotating medium through the deeps
Seems like this might work just as well as one frame at a time, but when I did mine I needed time to allow mine to also draw out wax on small cell frames.Why not just flip the whole box upside down,
My queens didn't lay in them but they didn't clean out the honey and pollen.BUT does this really work:scratch: