at what point do you move from weekly inspections ?

[JonnyPicklechin]

I stop regular checks on colonies once a current years queen has settled in. At the moment, about a third of my colonies have green (2019) queens.

Ive got 8 out of 10 greens through supercedure and splits etc....So can limit the inspections then. Just always worried about odd against-the-rulebook second swarms....

 

[eltalia]

Agreed, but I felt the urge to add it

"Natural Beekeeping" as we (royal) know it is done/finished... a Dead Practice.

What with bees being moved over continents, disease running largely out of
control and VD defying suppression anyone professing to be into it is either
deluded 0r is a danger to all Apis, not just the husbandry managed colonys.
Even in Australia, arguably the last bastion of Apis "running free" we see today
feral colonys riddled with SHB, many owning varying degrees of AFB and all
certainly not at strengths found previously in living memory.
Genetic diversity (even here) is so widespread it is only very isolated pockets
where one could say they run a line "naturaly".
This view is gleaned from various studies and that information published in
National 'zines, with reports confirmed via Internet sources.

/sits on hands/

Bill

 

[For want of a better word]

I stop regular checks on colonies once a current years queen has settled in. At the moment, about a third of my colonies have green (2019) queens.

Keep good records..... some colonies will only need a quick lift of once frame to check for eggs/ new larvae
BUT ( In beekeeping there is always a but!) check the outer brood frames for stores.... NBU has issued a "starvation alert"

Majority of beekeepers would be hard pressed to do a BBKA style check EVERY seven days.... if you are running a lot of colonies!

Chons da

 

[For want of a better word]

"Natural Beekeeping" as we (royal) know it is done/finished... a Dead Practice.

What with bees being moved over continents, disease running largely out of
control and VD defying suppression anyone professing to be into it is either
deluded 0r is a danger to all Apis, not just the husbandry managed colonys.
Even in Australia, arguably the last bastion of Apis "running free" we see today
feral colonys riddled with SHB, many owning varying degrees of AFB and all
certainly not at strengths found previously in living memory.
Genetic diversity (even here) is so widespread it is only very isolated pockets
where one could say they run a line "naturaly".
This view is gleaned from various studies and that information published in
National 'zines, with reports confirmed via Internet sources.

/sits on hands/

Bill

No wish to feed the Trolls... above is enough evidence shirley... to ban imports of package bees and queens.
Fortunately in the British isles we have a large population of native bees now being kept by more discerning beekeepers who want quality over quantity!

 

[BugsInABox]

Stop calling me Shirley

 

[beeno]

Ive got 8 out of 10 greens through supercedure and splits etc....So can limit the inspections then. Just always worried about odd against-the-rulebook second swarms....

As a hobby beekeeper, I would not inspect by the calendar or solely by the age of the queen. Other parameters are equally important as genetics i.e. propensity to swarm, flow and room.

 

[MartinL]

Buuuut by no stretch of the imagination nor fervour is anyone on
the Planet about to change/modify the biology in even a century
of evolved belief . . . . .

a regime of evolution . . . . .
in even a small way different . . . . . another.

So... I invite anyone here to put the case , it'll be interesting.

I think we're all interested as to which side of the divide your genes originate from?

Perhaps, "prison guard deserters" ??

 

[For want of a better word]

I think we're all interested as to which side of the divide your genes originate from?

Perhaps, "prison guard deserters" ??

Tad cruel that... What what what !!!

May be an original native to Australia?

 

[eltalia]

Tad cruel that... What what what !!!

May be an original native to Australia?

All good.... to be expected, such like.
What personal info I want published is either in my bio or in posts.

/folds hands/

Bill

 

[ShinySideUp]

To return -- however briefly -- to the original question. I haven't checked though my hives for the last three weeks as the weather has been cold and horrible. I have just peered in the tops to see if there is food and I put a feeder on a swarm I collected. Hopefully, I'll be able to get in tomorrow as the weather is expected to be quite warm here and see what the little buggers have been up to (eating my honey probably).

 

[eltalia]

To return -- however briefly -- to the original question. I haven't checked though my hives for the last three weeks as the weather has been cold and horrible. I have just peered in the tops to see if there is food and I put a feeder on a swarm I collected. Hopefully, I'll be able to get in tomorrow as the weather is expected to be quite warm here and see what the little buggers have been up to (eating my honey probably).

Not "my honey" but bees stores.
What is in the feeder?

Bill

 

[Curly green fingers]

Not "my honey" but bees stores.
What is in the feeder?

Bill

Not necessarily that depends on how much you feed and what nectar there is about...

 

[eltalia]

Not necessarily that depends on how much you feed and what nectar there is about...

?
"Not necessarily" what?

Bill

 

[Curly green fingers]

?

"Not necessarily" what?



Bill

Sorry it's first thing in the morning in the UK ...
Apologise bill
Mark.

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[eltalia]

Sorry it's first thing in the morning in the UK ...
Apologise bill
Mark.

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... and not even Saturday yet..! Heh.
No worries... shortest day of the year here today so
not a lot of time to ponder on bwain twusters, like.
/chuckles/

Bill

 

[Curly green fingers]

Longest day 21/22 of June..
The sun is shining and it's a lovely day in Shropshire work a hoy! Then bees. Bee's ..


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[Show me the honey]

Longest day 21/22 of June..
The sun is shining and it's a lovely day in Shropshire work a hoy! Then bees. Bee's ..


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Suns out here to!!! Not a cloud in the sky!!!!! First time for what feels like weeks

 

[Curly green fingers]

It's summer at last for a couple of days at least.

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[For want of a better word]

It's summer at last for a couple of days at least.

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MIDSUMMER DAY...
So get the Sublimox out and start feeding as soon as possible Winter is on it way!!!

 

[Curly green fingers]

True it's all down hill from here.
I'm more of a rhubarb man..

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