Frequency of inspections

Started by RustyUPNY, June 19, 2016, 08:42:37 AM

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RustyUPNY

Good morning everyone. I am interested to hear what the more experienced bee keepers on here do in regards to inspection freqnecy. How often is to much, how often is to little?  I am relatively new and would love to be in my hives as much as possible but have kept it to once every 7-10 days.

iddee

First year, that or a bit less, like 7 to 14 will be fine. As you get experience, you will slow down to "when I have a purpose to open it".  Meaning, I see a possible problem, it should need another box, the flights have slowed, ETC. Each year you keep, you will open each one less.
"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me . . . Anything can happen, child. Anything can be"

*Shel Silverstein*

BeeMaster2

What Walley said. 
I do inspections in the spring and fall to clean out any frames the bees do not like for some reason, sometimes it is an entire super. I inspect when I see a problem. I use screen bottom boards with trays and screen top boards. When there is a problem, the bees start dumping trash out of the hive into the trays. If the SHBs have taken over a box, the tray will bee full of SHB worms.
In the top I can see if the bees are thick or thin.
Strong hives have clean trays with just dropped pollen.
Jim
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