I had a few frames that had a number of pollen cells of which the extractor normaly won't clean out;
My question, when I place these extracted frames back on the hives, do the bees use this remaining pollen or do thy discard it ?? :?
Oh. I spray all frames with aizawai before replaceing in hives.
Bee-Bop
Never said that I was the sharpest tack in the box !
Bee-bop,
I am sorry, I don't have an answer. I am first season.
If you don't mind, though, what is aizawai? What does it do for the frames? I don't think I have heard of it yet.
Thanks
Joker
So, you spray them before putting them back on the hive to clean? Or before putting them in storage?
I would guess they would re-use the pollen, but I don't know for certain.
I spray before putting in to storage, altho I understand you can actually spray the frames & bees in the hive without any harm.
I did spray one hive one year and noticed no harm, but didn't see the benifit in doing it with a strong hive.
Of course I have been wrong a few times !! :roll:
Thanks
Bee-Bop
I think if you put it back on the hive, they will store honey overtop of it again :roll:.
Be careful putting it into storage with pollen as that will attract SHB, and the only thing BT aiwazai does for shb is eliminate the competition. :-\
I'd put them in the bottom box where they would probably put the pollen themselves...
The aizawai won't hurt the bees but if I were going to use it, I'd use it before storage, not before putting the frames back on a strong hive.