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September 17th 2022 meeting

Stuart's report.

We had 15 members (including ourselves) last evening and there were no problems that came to my attention. We lost the afternoon sunshine before start time and the temperature dropped a bit, but we opened all the hives and had a good look through National and Langstroth full frame boxes, plus polyneuk National and Langstroth, old and new designs, with examples of laying workers and weak but growing swarm colonies. 

There was great interest in a demonstration of how to mix National and Langstroth frames in the same Langstroth brood box with the aim to transfer a Langstroth colony into a National hive; and an example of a successful transfer.  Arthur Hill and I have been working on this, to my "National" apiary advantage, as a means of transferring weak, but growing, Langstroth hived swarms to my National hives. 

Having lost all my queens earlier this year it has been an interesting exercise to save the queenless "National" colonies from a "Langstroth" apiary.

The stance wouldn't normally be this crowded but the Langstroth to National frame experiment used up all the space.
The stance wouldn't normally be this crowded but the Langstroth to National frame experiment used up all the space.
This box is an essential part of the experiment.
This box is an essential part of the experiment.
Here you can see it is being used to support the National frames in the hope that the laying queen who is on the Langstroth frames will ultimately move across on the National frames.
Here you can see it is being used to support the National frames in the hope that the laying queen who is on the Langstroth frames will ultimately move across on the National frames.
The National frames can either be moved with very young eggs for a queen cell to be created or along with the queen herself.
The National frames can either be moved with very young eggs for a queen cell to be created or along with the queen herself.
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