Flow??

[SteveG]

Flow, Is it just me...??

Checked hives yesterday, supers i left on my large hives felt lighter and my smaller hives / Nucs all but one required feeding..

 

[thedozzer]

Flow, Is it just me...??

Checked hives yesterday, supers i left on my large hives felt lighter and my smaller hives / Nucs all but one required feeding..

No its not just you, we had high hopes as ours are very busy, but did inspection yesterday but both hives have had about the same in the supers for the last two weeks, but weather is good here?
Glad its not just us, but not happy about lack of honey.
Are yours a bit more defensive as well?

 

[Erichalfbee]

What’s blooming roundabout?
Mine are piling in the bramble and clover. Balsam and willowherb are starting.

 

[thedozzer]

What’s blooming roundabout?
Mine are piling in the bramble and clover. Balsam and willowherb are starting.

Ours are spoilt for choice, Lime, bramble, privet, and lots of gardens, seen bees on lime and bramble so bit confused where their hiding it!

 

[beeno]

Ours are spoilt for choice, Lime, bramble, privet, and lots of gardens, seen bees on lime and bramble so bit confused where their hiding it!

Can't remember your precise details off the top of my head, but any requeening activity reduces their work rate and swarming of course reduces their honey stores!

 

[Etton]

Me too. Just fed a few hives who were really low on feed. Probably swarmed hives, sovswarm took bulk of the honey. Disappointed as now problem with taking honey off later as sugar feed could be present.

 

[Millet]

Even my newly mated Queen hives are bringing it in..one is on one super another is on three..i will not say what my 2018 Queens have as you lot will not believe me but they are piling it in and i am starting to worry about my hive stands strength....

 

[Millet]

Mine are piling in the bramble and clover. Balsam and willowherb are starting.

The same here D..with the same starting plus a few more forage options to add to the list and the weather is perfect..

 

[thedozzer]

Can't remember your precise details off the top of my head, but any requeening activity reduces their work rate and swarming of course reduces their honey stores!

Hi Beeno, the old queen and her swarm in their new hive have already given us 6 capped frames about 3 weeks ago, and had nearly a full capped super a week ago, just surprised they have made no progress in a week but nearly filled a super in the two weeks before? same with the other hive with the new queen and bursting with bees, they look so busy but are achieving so little?

Not that bothered as the last lot of honey was amazing and all our friends & family think so to, we're just bemused where their hiding the fruits of their labour!

 

[Swarm]

I was tempted to take a harvest of Spring honey but I decided against it when the weather began to turn. We had many splits on the go and numbers were increased more than two fold so the honey supers were distributed around the smaller colonies. There are still a few colonies with BS deeps full with stores that I hadn't touched that I decided to leave as they could be shared out later in the year. Never needed to feed a single split and they've now replaced any stores they consumed and are filling extra supers.

 

[Beefriendly]

I was worried the June harvest would be non existent given the crap cold wet weather we had for most of the month....no worries two afternoons of extraction and one more to come. Where the hell my girls got the nectar from... who knows... They all had empty supers 5 weekend ago (after previous extraction at end of May). They now all have empty supers again....
Back on target for yet another record breaking year.

 

[beeno]

No its not just you, we had high hopes as ours are very busy, but did inspection yesterday but both hives have had about the same in the supers for the last two weeks, but weather is good here?
Glad its not just us, but not happy about lack of honey.
Are yours a bit more defensive as well?

Mine are backfilling the brood box. The only capped stores were in the brood box. They will move the uncapped stores into the supers when they are ready. Supers are growing, but the frames are not full enough to be capped. It is a waiting and looking for QCs game. Same last year.

 

[maddydog]

An OK spring harvest followed by a long dearth. Colonies fine but some splits and alot of new nucs needed feeding but sugar is alot cheaper than honey.

Major flow on now that the blackberry etc is out and the weather is decent. Suit is soaked from nectar after shaking some drone layers out.

 

[Poly Hive]

Flow? I wish. Bugger all happening here. Grafted from a frame of larvae that were bone dry: no RJ to be seen, never had that before. 5 lbs of CC off so far and very unlikely to see much more unless there is a massive change.

Worst season I have ever had.

PH