Speybee
Field Bee
- Joined
- Jul 30, 2020
- Messages
- 538
- Reaction score
- 174
- Location
- Scotland
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 4 (3 National and 1 wbc)
I heard the the term to Nadir a hive for the first time on this forum.
I looked up the Google to find out more, and it seems it was something for Warre hives which are out of my sphere as I use ‘standard size’ brood and a half National for brood nest and brood and a half for the wbc.
From the forum to Nadir a hive, I gathered it was putting the uncapped honey box under the brood nest directly over the mesh floor, for the bees to shift the stores upwards into the brood nest.
Is this correct? Or am I totally confused?
From my limited understanding of the Nadir hive, the configuration would be Mesh Floor, Uncapped honey box, shallow brood nest box, deep nest box, crown board, roof.
I would be worried that there might be spoiling of the honey box with bits of brood etc should the queenbee take a notion to lay in that Nadir honey box or does a QE go above the uncapped honey box which is under the brood nest?
Advice welcomed.
I looked up the Google to find out more, and it seems it was something for Warre hives which are out of my sphere as I use ‘standard size’ brood and a half National for brood nest and brood and a half for the wbc.
From the forum to Nadir a hive, I gathered it was putting the uncapped honey box under the brood nest directly over the mesh floor, for the bees to shift the stores upwards into the brood nest.
Is this correct? Or am I totally confused?
From my limited understanding of the Nadir hive, the configuration would be Mesh Floor, Uncapped honey box, shallow brood nest box, deep nest box, crown board, roof.
I would be worried that there might be spoiling of the honey box with bits of brood etc should the queenbee take a notion to lay in that Nadir honey box or does a QE go above the uncapped honey box which is under the brood nest?
Advice welcomed.
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