Empty Nest Syndrome...?

[Boston Bees]

Grow up

Thank you for demonstrating my point exactly.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Oh God please bring us good weather so we can get into our bees? Tomorrow would be good

 

[E&MBees]

Oh God please bring us good weather so we can get into our bees? Tomorrow would be good

We had better do a sun dance to make your wish come true!

 

[BugsInABox]

I know nothing about water and bridge.

it's an English phrase; means something like:- time has passed and we are all older and wiser now, what's gone is gone and what's done is done, so let the past be just the past.

What is the Finish equivalent?

 

[pargyle]

Oh Finnie
I thought that was all water under the bridge? That was years ago.
We’ve all made fools of ourselves here.

Clearly he hasn't changed ... I thought I was being nice to him.... I don't know about water under the bridge - more like vodka down the throat I think ... I'll leave him to stew.

 

[Finman]

more like vodka down the throat I think ...

I was woried that you have something wrong in your memory, but then you remembered vodka. Well done!

Nice to have a real friend oversees who calls me alcoholic.

 

[pargyle]

I was woried that you have something wrong in your memory, but then you remembered vodka. Well done!

Nice to have a real friend oversees who calls me alcoholic.

Finnie .... I've been nice to you for some years now .... I was being nice welcoming you back but you appeared to want to revert to your old ways .... not me.. Sleep on it and be nice ... and I will be too.

 

[Finman]

Finnie .... I've been nice to you for some years now .... I was being nice welcoming you back but you appeared to want to revert to your old ways .... not me.. Sleep on it and be nice ... and I will be too.

So nice.... have you informed New Zealand that I have not changed?

 

[pargyle]

So nice.... have you informed New Zealand that I have not changed?

Peace and Love Finnie ... Peace and Love ...

 

[Finman]

Peace and Love Finnie ... Peace and Love ...

That is a good idea. That same to you.

 

[pargyle]

That is a good idea. That same to you.

We are too old now to be biting chunks out of each other ....

 

[drex]

Thank you Finnie and Pargyle. That is beautiful. Hope it lasts.
We could all do with a bit more peace and love on here, if the season does not start soon. My mentees are getting a bit tetchy too, champing at the bit.

 

[oliver90owner]

Is all this because I wrote that ‘all the bees just died of old age in the winter’ was a crazy suggestion?

I don’t think I need add anything else apart from perhaps asking when anyone last had a bee colony abscond in the autumn. If they did, where would they move to? How would they provision themselves for winter? How would they avoid taking lots of varroa with them? All simple questions with simple answers. All easily be-bunked, methinks, without trying to make a myth of it.

 

[Finman]

Is all this because I wrote that ‘all the bees just died of old age in the winter’ was a crazy suggestion?

There are many reasons , why bees die during winter.

Summer bees die during autumn, if they have larvae. They die for age.

- 3a) Varroa kills winter brood. Part of them may emerge , but they die in couple of weeks and vanish from the hive.

3b) when summer bees die during autumn on pastures, the hive will be empty or badly reduced.

- Nosema is one reason why cluster will be reduced badly. Sometimes the whole hive dies.

- If damp kills the colony, I would say that it is the beekeeper, who did it. Poor skills


-Cold and poor insulation kills hives or part of cluster. That is usual. You may help them with electric heatimg or put them over the big hive.

- cold kills easily too small clusters and small nucs. Varroa makes its own part in this happening. If a small hive is alive in dpring it is not able to grow bigger for summer.

- During spring low flying weathers may kill half of the cluster in a week.

- When new bees start to emerge in spring, old bees go to work outside and they will die in few days

- Some hives may have nosema, and they do not get enough healthy workers for summer. The sick queen may stop laying.

- AFB hives die usually during winter.

.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Talking of bees absconding...... one late June I sieved a colony looking for a queen. To my beginner’s eye the colony had lots of bees. The next day I went back gleefully anticipating that she would be under the QX. When I opened up there wasn’t a single bee there. Nothing.