Backyard Beekeeping Questions & Answers #72 Screened Bottom Boards and more!

Welcome! In this episode of backyard beekeeping questions and answers, we cover the topics listed below. If you have questions you'd like to have considered for future question and answer episodes, please post it in the comment section, or follow this link: http://www.fredsfinefowl.com/thewaytobee.html 1) To harvest some of the honey, can I remove lower honey super and drop the top honey super down? How do you clear the supers of honey bees? 2) When and what should I be feeding my bees, and do you believe in feeding them during winter? https://www.mannlakeltd.com/pro-sweet-5-gallon-18-92-l-pail 3) What do bees do when they need to relieve themselves if they don't leave the hive? 4) Some say that bees prefer 3:1 ration instead of 2:1? Sugar syrup tests... bees choose: https://youtu.be/mWTCb4rY8L8 5) There are usually after swarms with my hives. I've had one hive after swarm 3 times about a week apart. How come the new queen didn't kill those rivals? Honey bees do have favorite queen cells: https://youtu.be/95TT-prUK2g 6) The cover that came with my Langstroth hive does not have a notch in it, should it have one? Also, the bottom board is not screened, should I order one with a screen? This video shows a screened bottom board system by BeeSmart Designs: https://youtu.be/GlKEI64DnDQ The Flow-Hive 2 Has my favorite IPM support/bottom board configuration: https://youtu.be/UY2HStY1N9o 7) My bees continue to super-cede their queens, do you have any idea as to why this is happening? 8) Is there any way of knowing if there is a hot hive nearby? Is there no way of knowing this has happened to your hive until you and your animals are under attack? 9) Oxalic acid vaporization on the horizontal hive. I am not able to afford the ProVap. 10) So you had the whole bottom open screened, bottom board or just the opening that the bees go in and out of? 11) Do I still have a chance of catching swarms? My Flow-Hive is ready but I'm worried I won't get my hives occupied this year. 12) What happens in an emergency, such as with a split, when the colony suddenly has no queen. Do the workers transfer an egg to the queen cup, or do they rebuild a chosen cell to be a queen cell? 13) Is there anything I can do to get my bees to finish and use the flow-frames? Want a Flow-Hive? Please avoid fakes, here is the real deal at $50.00 off: http://mbsy.co/honeyflow/29307941 AU - https://mbsy.co/zSDf9 EU - https://mbsy.co/zSDbm Wooden Bee Escape Boar: https://amzn.to/2DBwyy2 Ceracell Plastic Bee Escape: https://amzn.to/2DxVXsB As an amazon affiliate I earn from qualifying purchases :) thank you! Your buying price remains the same.