Feeling good

[Beagle23]

After an unpleasant experience during my last inspection (3 dropped frames, discovery of mites), I had a great experience yesterday which has restored my confidence.

To be completely honest I've been a little afraid of my bees since my last inspection when I was stung three times, so yesterday I decided I would wait until I was feeling relaxed before I opened the hive. This helped a great deal, calm movements and walking away if there were too many bees around my face (it was only uncomfortable once), kept my blood pressure down and the bees seemed nice and calm as a result.

Two things of note. The first was that my mite treatment seems to have worked, no evidence of mites and far fewer bees with damaged wings (1 in a 100 from about 1 in 20).
The second thing was that my super was full of brood and there were no brood in the brood box. Evidently I had managed to trap the queen in the super when I put in the QE during the last inspection. It took me a good while to pick her out as she was on one of the outer frames, but once I had it was a simple job to move her into the brood box.


I'm sure none of this is in anyway remarkable, but I came away from the inspection on a real high. There were no stings, no clouds of angry bees, no drops or slips, and two issues are resolved.

 

[Levitt53]

It's only my second season and I don't feel that I know much. But most of the bad experiences in hindsight have been my fault. Either bad weather, risks taken or faffed about too much etc. But yes take heart at your successes and learn from the bad experiences and onwards and upwards. Good luck.

 

[pargyle]

After an unpleasant experience during my last inspection (3 dropped frames, discovery of mites), I had a great experience yesterday which has restored my confidence.

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I'm sure none of this is in anyway remarkable, but I came away from the inspection on a real high. There were no stings, no clouds of angry bees, no drops or slips, and two issues are resolved.

Well done ... it's getting better and you are learning - it's a pretty steep curve and we all get days when it's better to walk away and leave them to it and days when you think ....it's just lovely to be around them. It's the latter that keeps us keeping bees and the former that teaches you what not to do...

 

[Erichalfbee]

After an unpleasant experience during my last inspection (3 dropped frames, discovery of mites), I had a great experience yesterday which has restored my confidence.

To be completely honest I've been a little afraid of my bees since my last inspection when I was stung three times, so yesterday I decided I would wait until I was feeling relaxed before I opened the hive. This helped a great deal, calm movements and walking away if there were too many bees around my face (it was only uncomfortable once), kept my blood pressure down and the bees seemed nice and calm as a result.

Two things of note. The first was that my mite treatment seems to have worked, no evidence of mites and far fewer bees with damaged wings (1 in a 100 from about 1 in 20).
The second thing was that my super was full of brood and there were no brood in the brood box. Evidently I had managed to trap the queen in the super when I put in the QE during the last inspection. It took me a good while to pick her out as she was on one of the outer frames, but once I had it was a simple job to move her into the brood box.


I'm sure none of this is in anyway remarkable, but I came away from the inspection on a real high. There were no stings, no clouds of angry bees, no drops or slips, and two issues are resolved.

Brilliant. It restores your faith in yourself when it goes so right.
Next time things go wrong or you have a hiccup. Remember this day. there will always be more days like this