another thread has me wondering. Once you spin out the honey and you take the frames back out to the hives to clean them, where do you put them? On top of the hive at a 45 deggree angle? back inside the hive where you took them from? off in the distance?
I have put mine right back where I got it from, inside the hive under the inner cover. I figure they clean it and move it down in the fall.
now that we are on the subjuct: some of you let the bees clean the equipment so where do you put that? can I take my extractor out there and leave it 50 feet from the hives without causing robbong? i have been wahing it out an I know i waste a lot of honey that the bees would like to have back.
thanks bob
Put the supers back on the hives for them to clean up. That way you'll only feed the bees you want and no wasps, etc. I always put my extractor, etc, about 100' from my hives. They always clean it slick as a whistle. Lay it on its side or the honey pooled in the bottom will drown lots of bees. I've never had a problem with this causing robbing.
I did my first harvest a few weeks ago. I harvested nine frames (one was only partially filled) from a medium super. I scraped the honey and drained the comb. I put the frames back into the super figuring the bees would know what to do with them. I haven't pulled any of the frames since, but the bees seem to be hard at work on them, looking from the top. I have been feeding the comb honey left over to my newer hive.
Not sure if I did the right thing.
Have fun! I am.
I put one recently harvested super back on the hive under the inner cover, and the rest above the inner cover. The idea is that the bees will pull the honey from above the inner cover into the box under the inner cover...or at least that is what I told them to do.