BEEKEEPING
From page 20
He prepares a new brood
chamber with ten frames
fitted with a 20mm strip of
foundation wax. Smoking the
parent hive, he removes the
super and lid as one unit and
places these on a board. This
is to confine all the bees in
the super that could bother
the beekeeper.
He then removes the parent
hive to another position
about three metres away and
faces it in another direction.
Next he places the new
brood chamber in the exact
position and facing the same
direction as before. He
removes four empty frames
and sets them aside.
During this operation the
beekeeper would continually
monitor the parent hive with
a little smoke quite often.
From the parent hive, from
one side he removes four
frames to be placed into the
new brood chamber.
As the frames are replaced he
inspects each frame.
One frame containing honey
and pollen must be placed as
the outside frame, the second
and third frame must contain
eggs or very young tiny larva
and the fourth frame can be a
frame of sealed brood.
There must be pollen on one
frame and if not, then search
from the opposite site of the
parent