6 weeks old AS has been overrun with wasps....help please!

[BabyBee]

Wow!

BabyB

"suppose it could be robbing bees...."

sorry but from your description there is no "suppose" about it!

richard

was talking to my neighbour tonight and we had a bit of blether about the last 12-18months of our novicey beekeeping here in our tiny wee village..so far, between the 3 of us, we've experienced:

• a drone laying worker
• 1 nuc that just didnt make it
• this nuc/split that is a bit touch and go
• a hive that nearly swarmed itself to death (but didnt)
• a hive that was sooo slow to get going, we thought it wasn't going to!
• a swarm that happened in the first year (when we were told they didnt!) and was 'found' clinging to the underside of the hive table
• more Q cells than we knew what to do with
• a Q that got damaged when neighbour tried to cage her to mark her

talk about a steep learning curve!!!

 

[oliver90owner]

Percy Vere was a fine old fellow. He got there in the end.

Amazing how easy it is when you get 'over the hump' on the learning curve!

Regards, RAB

 

[BabyBee]

Percy Vere was a fine old fellow. He got there in the end.

Amazing how easy it is when you get 'over the hump' on the learning curve!

Regards, RAB

Oh Rab, i cant wait to get to the point where it's classed as "easy"...that seems such a long long way away right now...

and might i ask WHO percy vere is? is he some kind of bee-god?

 

[oliver90owner]

and might i ask WHO percy vere is? is he some kind of bee-god?

No! Not even a person, let alone a god! Just a 'play' on the word 'persevere'. Sorry.

Regards, RAB

 

[Flatters]

BabyBee I am in my second year and there have been times when I felt that bee keeping is harder than being a parent and I have 4 children. There were a number of times last year when I felt like the worst beek in the world. This years big worries was weather created with one AS and 3 swarms I collected seemingly Q- for many weeks over the "normal".

This year now I feel more relaxed and am learning to manage things but by letting the bees do what they do. Things will get better with experiance and knowledge (I hope as I keep telling myself)

Percy Vere is friends of Eileen Dover, Earl E Byrd etc. Persevere.

 

[BabyBee]

LOL! what an eejit i am...on so many levels LOL

and thanks flatters, a boost to my self confidence

 

[richardbees]

BabyBee

Don't bother yourself, I also had no idea what Oliver was going on about with 'Percy V'

(He must be of the generation that sent apprentices' off for tins of striped paint!)

 

[Dishmop]

(He must be of the generation that sent apprentices' off for tins of striped paint!)

and did far worse things than that....