Fl. temps, Pd. Sugar

[rast]

 With temps running in the 80's, is that too hot to treat with powdered sugar? Do just the lower brood hive?

[Angi_H]

no it is not to hot. Treat each hive body. I use mediums and will be treating tomorrow I will treat each med. and place them back togather. I will also check frames and make sure all is well and see how they have gone with drawing out the frames.

Angi

[Understudy]

No it is not to hot.

You may treat with powdered sugar.

This is why you live in Florida and not somewhere else.

Sincerely,
Brendhan

[annette]

I was wondering why you treat all the supers separately Angi?  I did the same thing last summer and some members here told me I was doing to much work taking the whole hive apart. It also seemed to really disturb the hive everytime I removed all the supers. And I was dusting every week.

They said just powder dust the top super and it falls down to the other supers.That is what I am doing now. Just the top supers.

Just asking because I want to know what your experience has been with this.

Thanks
Annette

[Michael Bush]

>Do just the lower brood hive?

Do just the boxes with brood. This could be more than one box.

[annette]

Michael

So what you are saying is. If there is 2 brood boxes then take apart those 2 boxes and dust separately?? Or just dust the top of those 2 boxes???

Thanks
Annette

[rast]

 I told my wife it was OK to give my bees some sugar this weekend and she blew a kiss at them said to let her know if they needed more.

[Michael Bush]

>So what you are saying is. If there is 2 brood boxes then take apart those 2 boxes and dust separately?? Or just dust the top of those 2 boxes???

You might get by with just the top one, but if I was desperate enough to treat, which I'm not, I'd do them both.