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...te May and in June. It is said that the extra winter feed turns into brood area.

...]] can probably help you to find a Nordic Brown bee queen breeder in your area. Or you can check with the following individuals. We of course can not vouc

...a is solid, meaning that there are hardly any empty cells within the brood area and there is enough brood in comparison to the number of adult worker bees

* Place the [[drone comb | drone rearing frames]] next to the brood area. ...ckling and formic acid treatment in drone producing bee colonies in mating areas.

...ng the brood area too much, the expanding can be done underneath the brood area or the added box can be separated with a newspaper that the bees can remove ...e are only very few worker bees per brood cell that have to keep the brood area at 34°C. This is really hard work especially if the surrounding temperatur

...rming is the lack of space for egg laying; when for example the egg laying area is blocked by extra winter feed or spring honey. ...frame. A faster, less precise way to detect the cells is to tilt the brood area box on the lower box and then control the lower edges of the brood frames.

...ive is managed without [[queen excluder]], the queen lays eggs into a wide area. If there is no nectar flow, the eggs can be found everywhere and there wil ...m a neighboring bee hive and temporarily placed in the middle of the brood area without bees. Usually, the queen can be found on this visitor frame within

A purebred queen that freely mated in a drone aggregation area could possibly mate with non-purebred drones. Her female offspring would th ...tificial insemination]] can be used for pure mating, if an isolated mating area cannot be arranged

...ectar flow usually comes from raspberry, clover, and oil rapeseed. In some areas heather is also a very important food source.

...rature is at +17℃ in order to avoid a temperature drop in the sealed brood area and thereby inducing the chalk brood disease.

In most cases, carefully checking three frames from the middle of the brood area will reveal swarming behavior, if it is present.

...e suitable due to the bees having trouble regulating for example the brood area temperature.

...er; between 15 and 17 ℃. Often this does not happen before June. The brood area (the frames) is kept strictly in the same order during all of spring and du

...the box, then the worker bees will follow her. The box can be left in the area for a short while, so that the rest of the bees get on board. The special s

* A small number of adult bees can take care of a large brood area in spring.

...but the basic principles are the same in beekeeping regardless of bees or area.

...e was also the first subspecies to be farmed for honey production in these areas. Now, this unique bee’s existence is threatened in its native habitat. T

...be harvested at the same time but some food should be left into the brood area.