Feeding extracted frames back to a hive

Started by BEE C, September 09, 2006, 06:27:01 AM

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BEE C

Newbie question,
I have fed extracted frames back to my hives this summer, but only by adding them over brood boxes.  I also only did this for both hives at the same time.  Will it incite robbing behaviour if I put a super of extracted frames in front of my hives.  By this I mean will they finish off the extracted frames and then turn on each others hive in a frenzy of robbing? I was planning on doing this tomorrow as I extract. :?

TwT

Quote from: BEE CWill it incite robbing behaviour if I put a super of extracted frames in front of my hives.  By this I mean will they finish off the extracted frames and then turn on each others hive in a frenzy of robbing? I was planning on doing this tomorrow as I extract. :?

it could incite robbing being close to hives, when I extract my supers I some times put them back on the hives for a few days, I mostly just put the extracted super's behind my home stacked on 2 saw horses and a piece of plywood, the bee's clean them there but this is 300 feet from the hives not close to them, never have started robbing at this distance.....
THAT's ME TO THE LEFT JUST 5 MONTHS FROM NOW!!!!!!!!

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I would divide up the extracted frames and put some on each hive.  I think 300 yards is still chancy for igniting a robbing frenzy.
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