Backyard Beekeeping Questions and Answers #71 Honey Bees Discussed Q & A

Welcome to a question and answer video about backyard beekeeping.
In this video we discuss questions which have been submitted during the past week.

Below you'll find the topics discussed:

1) How do I condense a colony that has too many bees in it?

2) Transferring bees from a hanging Langstroth Hive to a Bench-top horizontal hive. How to move bees.

3) Is the season too short to add a Flow Hive to my Horizontal Hive?
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4) Would it not be a problem having so many hives near each other?

5) Insulating hives in winter, would that throw off their natural instincts? Should we leave them to survive or not to see if they should handle the cold?

6) What's the best time to open and service an Observation Hive? Some bees don't seem to be able to find their way back.
These are the details of my Observation Hive: https://youtu.be/jZsvDvO-BKA

7) I noticed two queen cups in my hive and then they disappeared, do bees remove them?

8) What's your opinion of the BeeScanning App? Are you going to share more about it?
In this video, I test the APP: https://youtu.be/74YR6Lfk0j4

9) Should I put my Flow-Hive on now, or wait until next year?

10) What are your thoughts on placing hives in sheds?

11) Will Oxalic Acid Vapor travel throughout a horizontal hive, or do I have to move it to several locations to get coverage?
I use the ProVap 110: https://amzn.to/3gnxxjG

12) My deep 8 frame hive is almost full and at risk of being honey bound, should I pull some frames and move them up when adding another box?
Acorn heavy waxed frames: https://amzn.to/3ka5BSO
Pre-Drawn Ready-to-use foundation: https://www.betterbee.com/foundation/bcombd10-bettercomb-drawn-comb.asp

13) How do honey bees get their jobs assigned to them?

14) I'm considering an Observation Hive as I think it could be a valuable tool. I may make my own design.

15) If my hive gets crowded, is it just enough to drain off some of the flow-super honey and keep up with their rapid storage? Or can I add two flow-supers?

16) Did you say that your "big flow" comes in August? Also, I thought you were a treatment free beekeeper. Has that changed?

17) If I harvest/scrape the honey comb off of an Acorn waxed frame, would the bees still use it if the wax is off?
My favorite uncapper: https://youtu.be/SrWG-3f4VIY

You are invited to visit my website: http://www.fredsfinefowl.com/thewaytobee.html

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