Recent content by 4degreesWest

I like your thinking. Call iawn!

I think I’ll consolidate what I can. Spin the most full ones and try and get them down to one super per hive. I’m guessing it’ll be fine to eat, but won’t last as long if the moisture content isn’t right? That’s what I wanted to hear re. mixing frames. I thought I was going to have to give...

I think I’ve messed up… I harvested some honey in August-got quite a good batch, and knowing that the Himalayan Balsam was out, I put all the supers back on top for the bees to reuse. Just looked in again today and there’s a fair bit of honey there but all uncapped and all over the place...

Ok. I hadn’t thought of the Queen being able to go in there. If I’m treating for Varroa, presumably I can just remove the super for the duration of the treatment?

I was going to start a thread to ask about what to do with part filled frames after my final extraction but I think this answers my question. If I put the part filled frames in a super under the brood box they’ll empty them for me?

The split seem fine. They’re smaller in number hence why I thought that it might have been space that was the issue. Presumably they have the same genes though

The split is now a colony of its own. Too big to combine unless I go double brood I suppose.

Ok. Time for some regicide.

Even if it is only for about half an hour after an inspection?

Thanks everyone. They’re defensive around the hive and I have been stung through the suit by them. This doesn’t bother me too much, but for about half an hour after I’ve done an inspection they will be quite active in an area up to about ten metres away. Nobody has any business being in that...

Thanks for the advice. I’ve just been out to them in the last quarter of an hour and they were as placid as anything so perhaps it’s something I’m doing wrong/time of day. I thought midday was a good time to look but it struck me this evening that were on a north facing slope that doesn’t get...

Combine the angry colony with the split that I took from them?

I’ve got quite an angry colony (my strongest) who were quite placid last year. I did a split in the spring and they also swarmed shortly afterwards but have built their numbers back up. I looked in on them yesterday and the brood box is very full of brood. Could this be making them angry and...

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Thanks. That helps a lot.