23rd September - treatment complete, start feeding

Today I removed the thymol treatment from hives 1 to 5. Hive 6 had been treated with MAQS at the start of the apiary treatment session. This was an experiment to gain personal experience of the use of MAQS I fitted rapid feeders to all hives and filled them with emulsified thymolised 2:1 syrup using Hivemakers recipe. As the bees are working flat out on the newly opened ivy which covers the sheds both at home and on next doors farm there may not be any real need but I want to get thymol into the winter stores as a nosema preventative.