. Beekeeping in the Midwest. Bees; Bee culture. Spring Management: Starting With Bees. A comb from the brood nest showing a good pattern of sealed brood. Young bees have emerged from the center cells. The queen will lay eggs in the center cells as soon as they have been cleaned and polished. (Fig. 31) The brood nest of the colony is an ellipsoidal or spherical area within the frames. The comb in the center of the brood nest has a large area of brood on each side. The combs toward the outer edges of the nest have smaller and smaller brood areas until the ones on the edge of the nest have only p
. Beekeeping in the Midwest. Bees; Bee culture. Spring Management: Starting With Bees. A comb from the brood nest showing a good pattern of sealed brood. Young bees have emerged from the center cells. The queen will lay eggs in the center cells as soon as they have been cleaned and polished. (Fig. 31) The brood nest of the colony is an ellipsoidal or spherical area within the frames. The comb in the center of the brood nest has a large area of brood on each side. The combs toward the outer edges of the nest have smaller and smaller brood areas until the ones on the edge of the nest have only pollen and honey without brood. It is important to keep these combs (frames) in order in a small colony, especially when the temperature may go below 57°F. (14°C), the clustering tempera- ture of a colony. If you put a large frame of brood near the edge of the cluster, the bees may not be able to keep it covered and warm because the shape of the brood nest has been changed. Eggs and de- veloping bees can be injured or killed by being chilled. In large colonies, and during warm weather, the order of the combs is not as important. However, it is best to keep brood combs together, with combs of pollen and honey on the edges and above the brood nest. The colony needs pollen and honey in the hive all year as food for the adults and for rearing young bees. It has been estimated that a full cell of each type of food is needed to produce one young bee. The pollen supplies proteins, vitamins, and other minor nutrients. Honey provides carbohydrates in the form of several sugars. Honey removed from the hives must be only the surplus produced by the colony. If more than that is taken, or if it is taken at the wrong time, the bees may starve. A beekeeper must learn to estimate the amount of food, particularly honey, in the hive at each observation and to decide whether 64. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readabi
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