Beekeeping Tips Please add to these

[REDWOOD]

Don't eat yellow snow


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[Poly Hive]

Hmm... re-queen with native bees?

And the source is please?

PH

 

[BrianO]

Plant late winter flowering shrubs/bushes close to your Apiary if possible.
This is a time when you CAN make a difference when every bit of Pollen and Nectar counts. Think this is often overlooked.
Large shrubs with multiple flowers, Somme good examples IE:

Heathers late Winter/early Spring flowering
Coronilla Glauca Citrina
Mahonia Charity
Sarrocca Confusa
Viburnum sp.
Pussy Willow

Flowers providing a smaller forage area but still usefull.

Snowdrops
Hellebores
Crocus

 

[Tremyfro]

If you have to travel to your apiary...make up a tool kit...in a box. Make a list so you don't forget anything.....have a metal bucket for your smoker to travel in.
If you are like me and keep your bees at home...make multiple trips in and out of the Bee Barn....for hive tool, queen catcher, queen box, fondant, marking pen, extra frames...the list is endless....eventually by the end of the season most of these things will be in the pockets of your beesuit...ready to hand...lol.

 

[madasafish]

Re queen with native bees

Ignore people who say native bees are better ##. It depends on the area . Ours are horrible.

## thus confirming prior advice to seek multiple advice

 

[alldigging]

If you have to travel to your apiary...make up a tool kit...in a box. Make a list so you don't forget anything.....have a metal bucket for your smoker to travel in.
If you are like me and keep your bees at home...make multiple trips in and out of the Bee Barn....for hive tool, queen catcher, queen box, fondant, marking pen, extra frames...the list is endless....eventually by the end of the season most of these things will be in the pockets of your beesuit...ready to hand...lol.

I think the scouts summed it up best.

Bee prepared.

 

[madasafish]

ALWAYS carry a mobile for help if things go badly wrong..when on your own.

 

[SDM]

Hmm... re-queen with native bees?

And the source is please?

PH

Always refer to

Unless its glaringly obvious common sense always take a tip from more than one person.

One persons good tip may be, in the eyes of another, a dearly held bad habit.

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[AndyTh]

Plant late winter flowering shrubs/bushes close to your Apiary if possible.
This is a time when you CAN make a difference when every bit of Pollen and Nectar counts. Think this is often overlooked.
Large shrubs with multiple flowers, Somme good examples IE:

Heathers late Winter/early Spring flowering
Coronilla Glauca Citrina
Mahonia Charity
Sarrocca Confusa
Viburnum sp.
Pussy Willow

Flowers providing a smaller forage area but still usefull.

Snowdrops
Hellebores
Crocus

And take and plant willow cuttings. I've tried this from a huge pussy willow tree in the next village; it's Salix Caprea, or Goat willow. Cuttings from this spp notoriously hard to propagate from. Any tips to success with its propagation please?

 

[AndyTh]

Removing a super after using a clearer board is easier if, when putting on the clearer board, the Crown board is left on under the clearer board. Just take off the super and the clearer board without disturbing the Crown board underneath. Especially useful if removing supers after dark e.g. at heather. No faceful of bees from the exposed box below!!

 

[Finman]

And take and plant willow cuttings. I've tried this from a huge pussy willow tree in the next village; it's Salix Caprea, or Goat willow. Cuttings from this spp notoriously hard to propagate from. Any tips to success with its propagation please?

S. caprea cuttings are almost impossible to get roots. And it is takes many years before it blooms.

There are plenty of other good willows, which takes roots normally and bloom after 2 years.

Caprea is sensible to brown fungus disease. I have planted many wild caprea saplings but most have got that rottening disease.

 

[Tremyfro]

Of course...use Flow frames on your hive...no risk of a face full of bees and no disturbance during harvesting your golden honey....

 

[Finman]

Of course...use Flow frames on your hive...no risk of a face full of bees and no disturbance during harvesting your golden honey....

Let them swarm first and then disturb.

 

[Heather]

cannot see if already posted.. hint.. Cillit Bang bleach and hygiene great sprayed on Poly hives to remove propolis with no damage.

 

[Swarm]

Have a walk in the woods and collect your smoker fuel.

 

[REDWOOD]

There are at least three statements of good advise I don't agree with.

 

[amigadave]

Have a walk in the woods and collect your smoker fuel.

I save corrugated cardboard packing material (the type that is almost shredded) for fuel too, which I find works quite well.

 

[Nige.Coll]

If you go looking for trouble in a beehive you'll surely find it.

If you have bees at an out apiary and find them about to swarm but you haven't enough boxes with you, put the crown of thorns over the queen on the frame and put it back in the hive, fetch equipment and the queen should be where you left her.

 

[For want of a better word]

Do not run with scissors!

Yeghes da

 

[Millet]

Never leave your car window open if you are placing supers in the boot full of capped honey and never use a smoker unless your veil and gloves are getting balled up with bees.