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Marked a pair of new laying Q's today currently have an Orange posca, one Q was more orange then the posca.
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Checked on the introduced queen in her cage and all seems good. Opened the tab and will now leave them alone for a while before checking...
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Worth checking the uncapped. I was taking frames of only half capped honey at 17.5% a few days ago.
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🙄 Once they’re over swarm fever I’ll probably unite them. The swarm is squeezed into a nuc but that won’t last long….
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I always keep cocktail sticks in my hive box.
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With all this rain you might think it would deter a swarm, but no. Spent yesterday afternoon rescuing a good sized soggy swarm from a...
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Requeened a feisty colony with a stop / go queen that I’ve been prevaricating over all season; with a queen from Exmoor Bees. I...
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Guess what? The hive with the supposedly AWOL queen swarmed today - flopped over the fence and are now in a nuc! Most of the bees are...
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Bellyflop out the entrance probably! Lots of hives have gone from merrily foraging to "oh i know, let's swarm" mode.
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Well, she definitely won’t fly away!
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Inspected 15 at the home apiary today,perfect weather and nectar pouring in.
Was expecting a pretty easy day as all the colonies here...
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Stan managed to spot a virgin on the third test frame we had put in. Hooray, what luck. Obviously not mated so pinched her and started...
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and...
I've always vaped from underneath and some of the floor(either plain galv or plastic coated) are over fourteen years old - the...
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Incredibly heavy supers on most hives so did a bit of swapping out capped frames for new frames and amassed about 5 filled supers that...
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Brilliant stuff! Your sky is a very difficult colour to around here today….
Boxes on roofs seem to do well 👍