What time do you rob your hives

Wombat2 · December 11, 2015, 05:48:59 AM

When its 30+*C by 10 am and daylight at 4:30 am ?

SlickMick · December 11, 2015, 06:58:36 AM

About then

Mick

jayj200 · December 11, 2015, 09:56:32 AM

4:30 am is good all the girls would be there to greet you

mikecva · December 11, 2015, 12:22:51 PM

4:30 is a bad time. I am getting old and I need my sleep. I usually start 8:30 to 9 since it takes a better part of the morning and early afternoon. Lunch. Then on to extraction. -Mike

BeeMaster2 · December 11, 2015, 12:32:47 PM

Whenever I have the time to get in there. Not late in the day. As the sun goes down, the bees will get pissy.
Jim

D Coates · December 11, 2015, 04:52:38 PM

Earlier, but not too early and well before the end of the day. +/- 10am - 4pm

divemaster1963 · December 11, 2015, 07:51:58 PM

Mid day. Most of the girls are out and the nurse bees are pretty calm.

John

Acebird · December 11, 2015, 09:17:16 PM

This season I used an escape board with success. Other years no success. The advantage of the north east is we have temperatures that force the bees to cluster. So they have to leave the supers in order to cluster. All I got to say is you got to love that they have to cluster. Harvest when they cluster, time doesn't make any difference.

tjc1 · December 13, 2015, 05:37:20 PM

I have always had great success with an escape board - leave it on for 24 hours, remove the super(s) and brush/blow off the very few remaining bees. Easy peasy, and the 'when' is hardly an issue.

Dallasbeek · December 13, 2015, 06:35:37 PM

I've heard escape boards free SHBs to do their thing. Anything to that?

tjc1 · December 13, 2015, 09:57:08 PM

I have not had that problem, but I am up north and see very few SHB. However, I do try to extract immediately - or within a day after removing supers - just to avoid any unwanted problems.

Jim134 · December 14, 2015, 03:49:06 AM

Quote from: Dallasbeek on December 13, 2015, 06:35:37 PM
I've heard escape boards free SHBs to do their thing. Anything to that?

I do believe where this beekeeper is located at they do not have SHB or varroa mites.

BEE HAPPY Jim 134

BeeMaster2 · December 14, 2015, 12:14:06 PM

Quote from: Dallasbeek on December 13, 2015, 06:35:37 PM
I've heard escape boards free SHBs to do their thing. Anything to that?

If I did that, by the time I get to extracting, the larvae are starting to hatch and slime the frames. I built 3 extractor boards. All of them are covered with terry cloth and used as fume boards.
Jim