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Getting the Apideas ready

So we started getting the Apideas ready this year for Queen rearing, here is some of the work to get them ready.

 

This is your basic apidea, we number these for our hive records

Apidea

Taking the Floats out, these help the Bees feed

Taking the Frames out

Removing the ventaltion screen

remove the door

Removing the Feeder

The empty Apidea

Cleaning the wax out

frames disassembled

Gluing the wax in to the frame with hot wax as a glue

Then just reassembe

And we have a Apidea ready for Queen Rearing

Apidea

 

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