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**moopogyOvenny** · 08-02-2012, 07:10 PM

As an aside, how much honey is left behind by an apiarist to get the bees through a Victorian winter? A couple of those frames or more like half?

This will depend upon several factors. The main one being the supply of flowers. Bees can always be moved to where the flowers are. Australia is entirely different in that many of our plants do flower in winter. Also that honey producers stack their hives with boxes known as supers and they take off these supers accoording to oversupply. At the end of the season they will leave a whole super. If not they will likely have to resort to feeding.

A super is a box of eight or ten frames.

If the audience was the Global Mail's only agenda, then they'd make their pages legible text.

08-02-2012, 07:10 PM	#6
moopogyOvenny Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 657 Senior Member	As an aside, how much honey is left behind by an apiarist to get the bees through a Victorian winter? A couple of those frames or more like half? This will depend upon several factors. The main one being the supply of flowers. Bees can always be moved to where the flowers are. Australia is entirely different in that many of our plants do flower in winter. Also that honey producers stack their hives with boxes known as supers and they take off these supers accoording to oversupply. At the end of the season they will leave a whole super. If not they will likely have to resort to feeding. A super is a box of eight or ten frames. If the audience was the Global Mail's only agenda, then they'd make their pages legible text.
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