The most difficult thing in the effort to get a bee that resists varroa mites and other diseases is to have bees that draw small cell foundation perfectly. If a hive is drawing well the small cells, it is most probably that they can defend themselves without any need to use chemicals. Dee Lusby struggled 20 years to achieve this aim and I had to work, with the help of Dee, 6 years. But now we can offer a Kit
to get in some months The kit consists of: 5 frames of drawn foundation HSC 5 sheets of wax foundation 4,9mm 1 fertilized queen selected from the hives that work the small cells perfectly and resist to varroa mites. 1 manual the price is 80 Euros The combs HSC http://www.honeysupercell.com are fully drawn plastic frames of 4,9mm. I do not like plastic at all in the hives, but it is a compromise. These frames only remain some brood cycles in the hive, then they are replaced by small cell foundation 4,9mm and can be used for the change of another hive.
You have to prepare a 5 frames nuc box for Langstroth frames.
Then you have to rub some wax on the plastic frames and paint them with a little honey.
So the bees accept them better.
You have to put the caged queen, without other bees in the cage, between the frames.
The cages have a hole filled with candy to liberate the queen after some time.
In the entrance you have to put a queen excluder that has the function of an
includer, that the queen cannot escape.Then you do a shakedown with the
necessary amount of any bees onto the 5 HSC frames in the nuc.
Then you have to bring the box to another bee yard, more than 3 kilometers away,
that the bees do not regress to their original hive.
Within 6 weeks there are no more original bees there, all the bees are now daughters of
the selected queen and therefore they know how to draw small cell foundation.
Now you can add 4,9mm wax foundation, always near to the brood, because there
the bees draw small cells better. So we can fill a super in a short time.
If you have to feed - ONLY HONEY - not much but constantly.
For instance every second day 250gr.
If there is a big honey flow they tend to make bigger cells.
Now we can take off the HSC frames step by step.
More instructions in the next page
