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Mini nucs and absconding
PostPosted:20 Jul 2019, 08:05
by AdamD
As some of us are expecting warm weather next week, it's worth preparing for it. Mini-nucs can overheat and the colonies abscond so if the queen is mated, it's worth putting queen excluder over the entrance to keep her in. I have lost small colonies this way and have also found them on the grass late in the day surrounding their clipped queen.
Re: Mini nucs and absconding
PostPosted:21 Jul 2019, 07:36
by Alfred
When the Mrs sees the best bath towels draped wet over those ' silly little polystyrene boxes ' on the shed roof she will flip.
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Re: Mini nucs and absconding
PostPosted:21 Jul 2019, 07:47
by Japey Edge
Is yours in direct sunlight then Alfred? I have mine next to a fence, under the stand it was supposed to sit on top of. Keeps it shaded with a little sun on the entrance.
Re: Mini nucs and absconding
PostPosted:21 Jul 2019, 12:52
by Alfred
Due to feral grandchildren mine has to be high up which can only mean the shed roof
It gets full light until evening.
I suppose I could make up some fake hedges with planters around it.
Shes probably gone already-lady luck used to be a friend of mine
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