As a newbee, got a couple of questions.
I have hives built, painted,frames in, ready for package bees to arrive.
1) After putting the bees in the hive, following all the my mentor has told me, do I go ahead and place the shallow super on top of the hive body?
2) As they (hopefuly) start to expand , will I need to add a super ?
3)If so do I need to go ahead and some and have them ready ?
I know this my sound small to others , but I want to start out right (hopefuly)
Gregg
>1) After putting the bees in the hive, following all the my mentor has told me, do I go ahead and place the shallow super on top of the hive body?
No.
>2) As they (hopefuly) start to expand , will I need to add a super ?
Eventually, yes.
>3)If so do I need to go ahead and some and have them ready ?
Do you have another brood box? What size are the boxes? Most places you'll need more than one brood box. Then you'll need "supers". In my case all those are the same size box.
Usually it takes 2 brood boxes then after 7 of 10 frames of the second box are drawn out add the first super.
Jim