Recent content by Jon.21

Feels like it’s flowering much earlier than last year.

Thanks. Tried 2 apps and they cam back with brassicas both times but one said oil seed rape and the other turnips.

Thanks will do. Had similar last year where they were hammering the oil see rape and I managed to get it all off and extracted without it crystallising. Will use your proposed timing method as last time found it difficult to judge.

Went for a walk yesterday in the field near where I keep my bees to investigate the bright yellow flowers. Plenty of honeybees foraging on them. I took a photo on ObsIdentify app and it came back with turnip where as I thought it was OSR. Is this correct and if so is it as good for the bees as OSR?

Put my ear to each hive late last night and a reassuring hum heard from each one.

Good idea. I’ll check later tonight.

13deg here today. Watched the bees for a little bit. Good to see plenty of activity as there was a couple of them I was worried about as not seen many bees coming and going over winter.

Thanks all. Not found any before so wanted to confirm they weren’t workers that were half dead 🤣💦

Hi. I recently moved some wood and found these in between the planks. Not dead as they were moving very slowly. Are these queen wasps as not come across queen wasps before ?

Thanks.

The general consensus after I posted these photos a few weeks agon was that the dark cylindrical items are wax moth poo but in the same pictures you can see the wax cappings. These photos were taken on the 24th dec after the boards has been in for around 7 days across 2 oxalic acid treatments 5...

I’ll have another look and see.

Was wondering whether the cappings were stores or brood. Is there any easy way to tell ?

I did 2 oxalic acid vape treatments 5 days apart on days around 10degc in the afternoon just before Christmas with inspection boards in on 3 colonies. Good evidence of cappings dropped so bees in there but only spotted 1 mite on one of the boards. Either I’m not doing the treatment right, the...

Thanks. Really appreciate you having a look yourself and sending the photos. They look the same so must be wax moth as you said. I’m coming to realise that a big part of beekeeping is that you learn so much about other things as part of the process of looking after bees.