I’ve been trying foundationless frames for the first time this year. This has generally been going well apart from the bee’s liking for drawing drone cells. I thought this might happen less when making an artificial swarm (as the colony would be needing more workers) but this didn’t seem to make much difference. I guess the girls know what they need better than me but I hoped for a full complement of workers with the bramble flow just starting!
(Mind you, these are nice calm bees so I don’t mind flooding the local gene pool )
(Mind you, these are nice calm bees so I don’t mind flooding the local gene pool )