Question ?????

[JordanM]

I have a 5 week old package of bees started on foundationless frames, the queen was laying when i got her and this last week when the babys began to hatch i noticed them filling there cells being filled with honey and pollen so overall I checked my hives and the brood box seems to be filled with honey and pollen.
Could this be honeybound or is honeybound just honey and no pollen? What is your advice?

[ajm]

  Try to feed the bee sugar water to help them to make comb more quickly.  Mine became honey bound in this manner and I think it may help.  Could'nt hurt they just would not take it if they did'nt need it.

ajm

[JP]

I have a 5 week old package of bees started on foundationless frames, the queen was laying when i got her and this last week when the babys began to hatch i noticed them filling there cells being filled with honey and pollen so overall I checked my hives and the brood box seems to be filled with honey and pollen.
Could this be honeybound or is honeybound just honey and no pollen? What is your advice?

The bees mix nectar and pollen together to create what we call bee bread, its what the youngsters in the colony eat, this is healthy to see in a hive, its not a problem.


...JP

[sc-bee]

Bound is bound, no place for the queen to lay!!!. It doesn't matter whether it is pollen honey or both. Also on the other hand they will only raise the brood they can keep warm, I didn't look @ your location and not near as much a problem in warm climates.
But as stated above brood and pollen together is GOOD! Just don't overfeed and crowd the queen and add supers as needed.

[JordanM]

I have a 5 week old package of bees started on foundationless frames, the queen was laying when i got her and this last week when the babys began to hatch i noticed them filling there cells being filled with honey and pollen so overall I checked my hives and the brood box seems to be filled with honey and pollen.
Could this be honeybound or is honeybound just honey and no pollen? What is your advice?

The bees mix nectar and pollen together to create what we call bee bread, its what the youngsters in the colony eat, this is healthy to see in a hive, its not a problem.


...JP

But is it healthy to see it on all frames and no baies at all? I have heard of adding a frame of brood from my other colony should i do this and if i do should i put the honeybound frame in the colony with brood?

[Robo]

Don't know what you mean by no babies, but if you mean there is no larvae or eggs, then I would suspect a queen problem. Even if it where honey bound, there would be some brood.   Is the queen still there?   Is ther any open cells for her to lay?   I wouldn't feed them and make sure there is enough empty comb for her to lay in.

[JordanM]

Every comb that i saw had honey and pollen in it, i did not try to look for the queen though. I am not going to feed them, because i am certain we are in a honey flow right now.

[JP]

I have a 5 week old package of bees started on foundationless frames, the queen was laying when i got her and this last week when the babys began to hatch i noticed them filling there cells being filled with honey and pollen so overall I checked my hives and the brood box seems to be filled with honey and pollen.
Could this be honeybound or is honeybound just honey and no pollen? What is your advice?

The bees mix nectar and pollen together to create what we call bee bread, its what the youngsters in the colony eat, this is healthy to see in a hive, its not a problem.


...JP

But is it healthy to see it on all frames and no baies at all? I have heard of adding a frame of brood from my other colony should i do this and if i do should i put the honeybound frame in the colony with brood?

Ok, I didn't realize you had no brood at all coming in, check the hive for a queen. If you have another hive you can take a frame of brood from and give to this hive I would. I would hold off on feeding.


...JP

[JordanM]

I started a new thread here:
http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php/topic,16245.msg117840.html#msg117840