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Time for another installment of "Anyone ever seen one of these?"
« on: December 23, 2013, 09:59:13 pm »

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Re: Time for another installment of "Anyone ever seen one of these?"
« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2013, 02:41:24 pm »
It would work only until the girls propolized it from moving.
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Re: Time for another installment of "Anyone ever seen one of these?"
« Reply #2 on: December 25, 2013, 03:06:26 pm »
I would give anything to live in an area where they had honey crops anywhere near that in the picture!  :o I have never had more than 3 mediums on a hive in all my years of beekeeping (maybe 15 years).
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Re: Time for another installment of "Anyone ever seen one of these?"
« Reply #3 on: December 25, 2013, 08:45:31 pm »
Those look like all Deeps!!   That would be a pretty strong hive ready to split into six +   ;D  Slipicone must be some good stuff!!!   Anyone still sell it?
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Re: Time for another installment of "Anyone ever seen one of these?"
« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2013, 12:57:18 am »
They look like deeps to me also, and looks like a queen excluder on top of the second deep from the bottom. If the other 5 are full of honey, your looking at somewhere around 400 lbs of extracted honey. Jack

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Re: Time for another installment of "Anyone ever seen one of these?"
« Reply #5 on: December 26, 2013, 04:12:34 am »
The photo is staged if the colonies was that big and with the brood open you would have more bees in the air and landing and taking off. As well where are the guard bees at the entrance.

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Re: Time for another installment of "Anyone ever seen one of these?"
« Reply #6 on: December 26, 2013, 11:42:35 pm »
The photo is staged if the colonies was that big and with the brood open you would have more bees in the air and landing and taking off. As well where are the guard bees at the entrance.
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Re: Time for another installment of "Anyone ever seen one of these?"
« Reply #7 on: December 27, 2013, 03:36:17 am »
Here is a couple for you Perry all supers are full except 1 Dadant on each.
Single Queen in 2 brood boxes and the top 2 supers above a bee escape

This is a 2 queen colony each queen is in a single brood box. The top 2 supers are above a bee escape

« Last Edit: December 27, 2013, 04:35:13 am by iddee »
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