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I have not populated it with bees yet. I did one Snelgrove operation because of swarm cells and am waiting to see if the new queen gets mated. Another colony is busy drawing out some of the new Dadant depth frames.
I was expecting a couple of nucs to be dropped off for me to experiment with but that is still pending.
I have thought some about the degree of separation with only one of the upper nucs blocked and wondered about whether there would be enough isolation to induce concerted cell starting. Blocking just one side leaves the bees in that box in contact with bees that still have contact with bees still able to access queen pheremones.
I think your experience is going to make me want to also close the access via the space above the shared divider.
The tearing down of cells when made queen right is something I am not too experienced with. Most of my cells have been generated with the snelgrove double screen. I dont know what all subtleties are involved in their decision making on that. I think there is different predictabilities depending on whether Italian or Carni and some of the black native bees of europe; absolutely guess work there though.
I was expecting a couple of nucs to be dropped off for me to experiment with but that is still pending.
I have thought some about the degree of separation with only one of the upper nucs blocked and wondered about whether there would be enough isolation to induce concerted cell starting. Blocking just one side leaves the bees in that box in contact with bees that still have contact with bees still able to access queen pheremones.
I think your experience is going to make me want to also close the access via the space above the shared divider.
The tearing down of cells when made queen right is something I am not too experienced with. Most of my cells have been generated with the snelgrove double screen. I dont know what all subtleties are involved in their decision making on that. I think there is different predictabilities depending on whether Italian or Carni and some of the black native bees of europe; absolutely guess work there though.