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My blog will always be one day behind...
I got back in from shopping yesterday and the bees met me at the driveway gates !
Dashing up to the top of the garden through a (?swarm?) haze of (happy) bees I noticed that bees were all over the front of the hive even hanging hanging down onto the stand.
The only time I have seen bees do this is when bees swarm. Is it too early? Has something disturbed them? I panicked, raked a spare nuc and travelling box out of the summer house and strategically placed them nearby. I then left the bees (to their own devices) and went to get reinforcements (my husband from his woodworking class).
When we got back everything was as it should be! No bees hanging from trees (we looked in the wood too!)...
Forgot to say I added QEs Tuesday.
I found small amount of brood in the right hive super.
Today I did not see any eggs in the super.
Makes a change for me not to trap the queen in the super.
Joined the left hive to the right hive.
Using the old paper system.
Ok. New beginnings - not sure if that is grammatically correct. However,we are back to bee keeping after 20 or so years (those halcyon times of fields of bean, Borage and hardly any varroa - those were the days!)
Cant believe we actually bought some bees this time. I remember seeing and capturing our first swarm all those years ago (in a wicker Alibaba laundry basket) and the fearful looks of our (long suffering) neighbours.
I have to say at this point in our defence that we have a large garden and the bees are well away from prying eyes. We have an added bonus of being situated next to acres of (wet, ancient) woodland. Err, and of course miles of Oilseed Rape!
Re our new bees - We collected our (rather expensive) bees in a...
Hot sunny day and I just had a look at my hives for the 1st time this year.
Right Hive.
Has loads of bees and have started bringing in some nectar.
Did not see the Queen.
9 frames of brood.
Left Hive.
Not as many bees, but still a lot.
Small amount of honey left in the super.
Small amount of brood on 1 frame.
But I am going to join this hive with my Right hive.
I saw the Queen and marked her.:)
Already got someone who wants her.
I always give my last year Queen away.
Next job: join the hives together.
Just thought I add this is the 1st time i have opened my hives after last years last inspection.
Decided to spread my wings into queen rearing, I have 10 colonies and 6 colonies I would like to breed from. Lots of prep this year building up bee stock and equipment ready for my breeder queens arrival next year.
I will be glad of any advice.
The village where I live is full of lovely neighbours all who did a collection to buy me my first bee hive for my significant birthday last year. We live near Gatwick airport and so a few of my neighbours run Bed and Breakfasts for the weary travelers with early flights, handfuls of kids, business to attend etc. The guests can leave their car at the B&B and get a lift up to the airport at any time of day or night. One such B&B belongs to Angie and Graham and is home to numerous family members (Kate, this is your mention…) as well as a host of B&B guests. This is a house that never sleeps – turn up at any time and you will find someone cleaning, someone gardening, someone mowing, someone chopping, someone dancing and everyone always...
How exciting to finally collect my very own bees. Jim and I bought two buzzing boxes of bees (nuclei) back to the house on a very hot April morning. We sited the two hives, unscrewed the tops of the nuclei and pulled out the sponge bungs to release the bees. Now is the time I should be featuring my very first “vlog” but unfortunately my video recorder guest, one Timothy from Sydney, didn’t last long enough to get a close up of the dispersing bees – I could upload a voice saying, “Oh I think I am too near, F*** that” and then sounds of scampering through long grass fading out.
I can tell you though that the bees settled in very well and within an hour we had moved the frames from the nuclei boxes into the hives. I wrote a blog last...
I’ve been under enormous pressure all summer to continue with my Waxsbees blog and I really haven’t had the time – so an enormous apology to all my fans (that will be Hattie) for the delay. The good news is, that I’m back and there is a lot to write about - do feel free to take mini-breaks along the way but do come back – who knows there maybe something of interest in here somewhere for you. Alternatively, I might get bored myself and just drift off in mid sentence never to be heard from again.
So what’s been the question on the lips of ALL OF MY IRRITATING FRIENDS (you know who you are) every time I see them? And, what are YOU thinking right now? Where’s the honey? Well, it’s a long story…..
It all started again during late...
There has not been as much ivy pollen or nectar coming in as previous years, but on all my sites you can see the dark brown nectar and then patches where it is crystalising into white honey, before they even get the chance to cap it. I am still feeding thymolised syrup to the colonies that still need it.
There have been a couple of mild frosts, but not enough to kill off the wasps. The eucaplyptus clippings that I put around hives at the allotment as a mulch seem to actually be attracting more wasps. The plan is to wait until the wasps are gone before putting on the mousegaurds. I'll make sure I take the entrance blocks out when I put on the mouseguards so that the dead bees won't silt up the entrance over Winter. I don't want...
I got stung quite a lot around the ankles on Saturday at the allotment. Most of the bees were back to being nice except for the Cyprus queen. That's puzzling as she was nice last year.
Yesterday I put a boiler suit on under my bee suit and laced my boots up to the top becaue I didn't want anymore stings. The bad news is that the swarm that cost me the congestion charge fine that my student had knocked over last week, had absconded. I don't ususally put a QE under the BB, but I do usually put the varroa tray in, becuase I find that they settle better with a dark floor, then I take it out when there is brood.
Other bad luck was that I remarked my old favourite queen and I think her back leg got damaged. She was dragging it a bit...
The hives all smell strongly of ivy now and some of them have no more room for extra stores, but a few of them still have, so they got another top up of thymolated syrup.
Over the weekend there were a few wasps about, so I still haven't put on the mouse guards. One colony at the allotment was aggressive and following. The queen was open mated from one of the fancy queens, but she has been in there long enough to know her temperament. I caged her so that she will be easy to find when I go back to replace her as this good weather won't last much longer.
The varroa is still dropping from having the oasis thymol patties in, so I have still left the inserts in, at least until the weather turns and the risk of damp increases.
Some of...
I feel sympathetic when my neighbours have foulbrood, but when the seasonal bee inspector rang to say be wanted to look at my bees on the allotment this week, I felt the same feeling as I did when the children brought home the letter from school saying that someone in the class had head lice and everyone would have to be treated AGAIN. I know, I know; head lice like clean hair and you don't have to be a dirty beekeeper to get it EFB, but every year the apiaries close to the allotment seem to get EFB.
He was keen to get on and see them and since I already knew that beekeepers in the other local association had had EFB confirmed and that a few of them were close to me, I thought it best too. I was at work and he was local so I said he...
Hello, between 24th August & 09th September 2011 someone stole a colony of bees from one of our apiaries in Chesterfield, the hive was a single National Brood, marked with number 320 pinned to a white gloss painted square, so if the number has been removed there should still be some marks in the paint, the colony was recently transferred from a nuke & on the 24th August was occupying 6 brood frames, the frames are unusual in that the topbar is just 10mm thick with fillets nailed either side of the foundation also the bottom bars are made up of one piece with a rebate to accept the foundation.
If anyone is offered a hive answering this description please contact Chesterfield Police Station or call us on 01623812472.
Regards
Tim Roper...
The allotment bees were super defensive yesterday. I had warned the students and told them to wrap up carefully. One of the colonies was so bad that I ended up having to plunge my head into the stinking water butt again. They are always bad when you take the honey off, but I one colony in particular was terrible. It was thundering and lightening, which didn't help.
I made up the thymol oasis patties according to Hivemaker's recipe and have put them on all the hives on all 3 sites, with the varroa inserts and the entrance blocks in. I made up half doses for the nucs.
I haven't finished extracting, but not such a good crop this year. I think the very high number of bees in this vicinity is the reason. I'm going to move a couple...
This will be my last post to this blog.
Took the 2 supers off on Sunday.
I did not bother trying to get any frames from the supers below.
As they were not much capped.
Treated for vorroa and put a feed on.
Extracted and filtered the honey and bottled 52lb.
Got another 20lb from the super I took off last month.
72lb total.
Not that good, but better than nothing.
Big problem with swarm
Caught swarm on 23/07/11 inside hive all seems well.on the patio where i'm keeping them dead and dying everywhere.is this natural wastage or possible some thing wrong
