July 31st inspection of a requeened hive #4. I am looking for pests and disease, eggs, Larvae and brood, and maybe the queen, finally this hive is doing much better.
Hi from central Otago southern New Zealand 👋😃 noticed you had a little lid trouble, you might like to try an inner cover because sometimes pulling off a stuck down telescoping lid can be a complete mongrel. They'll stick the cover down but the lid will be free. It's another piece of kit, but I find them worth while. I wouldn't be concerned about finding queen cell starter cups, or what people call practice cups😅 it's normal to find them and they'll just draw more. The advantage of leaving them is if your hive goes into swarm mode, those starters are where they'll start drawing queen cells, usually😂 I make a mental note of their location and it's easier to spot any changes. In queen supersede mode, it doesn't matter because they'll pull them from scratch from suitable aged larvae. Great video 👍 it's mid winter here 🥶 so I'm watching everyones summer videos 😂
@@Manuherikiabeekeeping hi thanks for watching,, I actually do have inner covers on all my hives, they have managed to get some propolis in there and stick it to the telescopic lid , bit of a nuisance but bees will be bees. Cheers Rob
@@honeybees1970 😂 I'm watching one of your other videos and I saw that😂 it's the queen above the excluder one. There's just nothing like the moment when you're in a honey super and you see brood above the excluder 🤦😃 I think our inner covers are a different design, ours are full sheet covers with no feeder slot because we use inside frame or rectangular feeders so the bee's can't access the cavity.
