Hello and a Question

Bobby2262 · June 02, 2011, 11:00:47 AM

Hello to all, I'm brand new to the forum but hopefully not for long. I've been keeping bees for a few years
but still learning ( hope that's a good thing ) Looks like a excellent place to learn.
My question is, what do you all do with a super that was added late and didn't get capped? I don't want to leave it on ( if it ends up not getting capped ) don't want to give the bees space that they can't maintain later and that could become a wax moth factory. Don't know how much flow we have left here in N.E. Ga.
Thanks to all who respond :)
Bobby

L Daxon · June 02, 2011, 11:20:48 AM

Welcome Bobby. You'll learn a lot here, and have a few laughs in the process. As to your specific question, don't have the answer. I've always wondered the same thing. Thanks for asking. I am sure you will get some good answers.

By the way, post you location in your bio section. You mentioned you are in Georgia in you post but you may not always include that in future posts. It always helps to be able to see at the left where someone is posting from as different things work/happen in different areas of the country/world.

Linda D

hardwood · June 02, 2011, 11:29:50 AM

You've got plenty of time yet...leave it 'til it's capped.

Welcome to Beemaster's.

Scott

FRAMEshift · June 02, 2011, 11:37:23 AM

They will either cap it or eat it. I think in NE Georgia you still have some flow left. But if you go into a dearth before it's capped, they will just use the nectar.

VolunteerK9 · June 02, 2011, 02:27:22 PM

Quote from: FRAMEshift on June 02, 2011, 11:37:23 AM
They will either cap it or eat it. I think in NE Georgia you still have some flow left. But if you go into a dearth before it's capped, they will just use the nectar.

Yup, and if we dont get some rain so, I think we will have an early dearth.

Kathyp · June 02, 2011, 03:39:55 PM

i'd' wait, but later, anything that doesn't get used/capped i either move away from the hive to get robbed out, or toss it in the freezer for later feeding.

Bobby2262 · June 03, 2011, 10:14:10 AM

Thanks all for the comments, yes it's pretty dry here and if we don't get rain soon, as you said it may be over.
Thanks again, great forum!! :-D

AllenF · June 03, 2011, 01:41:20 PM

Wait until mid July, then pull. There will be zero after that until fall unless you are sitting on ag fields like cotton. For the uncapped frames, you can feed back to the bees in the fall or leave them in the freezer until spring.

hardwood · June 04, 2011, 12:21:14 AM

Shake test the uncapped frames...if they pass extract them.

Scott