How do i get the honey close to the brood area

[tom]

Hello

  I have been wondering about the frames of pollen in the middle of the brood and the honey is on the outside. Would it hurt to move the pollen frames to the outside and move the honey close to the brood area so it will be in reach of the bees when they go into thier cluster for winter. My third hive has close to seven frames full of capped brood and then they have a frame that they did not draw out close to the wall and the other frame is drawn but they are not storing anything in it but they have a frame of pollen close to the brood area. My second hive is doing the same thing and i was wondering if i move the empty frames close to the brood area now my second hive had all thier frames drawn i want to move the pollen frames to the outside will this be wrong and should i just leave them alone i see where finsky fill his empty frames with syrup will it leak out if i do the same thing.

Tom

[Michael Bush]

You don't think they know what they are doing?

http://www.bushfarms.com/beeslazy.htm#stopfightingbees

[tom]

Hello Mr.Bush

 I jsut was asking if this was the best because my so-called state bee inspector was telling me this and some other things i need to do for my bees like to go ahead and treat for tracheal mites and for nosema which i have not found any signs of mites or anything else my hives are busy working and my queens are laying great patterns but i read somewhere that you should move honey frames close to the brood area i just wanted some advice and i got what i wanted thank you. Oh and the bee inspector said it was to far for him to come and look at my hives and i am in his territory.

Tom

[Zoot]

What part of VA are you in? Never heard of Buffalo Junction.

[tom]

Hello Zoot

 I am about two hours from richmond and i live near a small town named Clarksville Virginia i am out in the country. Or as some folks would say in southern Va. and it has been some nice days here not to hot and not to cold it has been cloudy but my bees are out first thing in the morning there is some golden that had bloomed but my bees did not go near it and there is some wild plants that is growing on the side of my drive way with small white flowers on it and i have seen a few bees on it. But they are gathering pollen in the morning and in the afternoon they are coming in with no pollen but they are loaded with nectar i guess they are falling to the ground before they get to the hive annd then they fly up into the hive.

Tom

[Brian D. Bray]

If you inspect a brood frame you will find that there is often a single or partial ring of pollen between the brood cells and the honey.  Pollen is essential to raising brood.
If you want to get the undrawn portions of some frames drawn switch them closer to the center of the hive but do not break up the brood frames.
When the bees get serious about winter stores they will throw away most of the excess pollen and backfill with honey and reduce the size of the brood chamber in the process.
Don't try to out think the bees, strive to understand how they behave and why.  Stimulus and reaction.

[Finsky]

I am just putting in wintering condition hives and I start sugar feeding.
I put in this order:

Sugar - white comb
S
Pollen
Brood  -->S
B--------->S
B--------->S
B--------->S
P
S
S white comb


Brood will emerge and bees fill combs with syrup.

Just now we have specially warm September. We must feed hives ffor winter but there are  one box full of brood. So I put another box with empty combs up and started feeding. They will fill and cap syrup quickly.

Normally we have first frost here but now it has been 20C  daily. I am late in feeding shedule over one week. Honey dew is the reason why bees have so much brood now.

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