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The first bell started to flower a few weeks ago, now the first of the ling is just starting to flower in a few places, quite early this year, hope it starts to secrete nectar before mid September, like it did here last year.
The first bell started to flower a few weeks ago, now the first of the ling is just starting to flower in a few places, quite early this year, hope it starts to secrete nectar before mid September, like it did here last year.
I do so hope it will... and the fireweed ( RBWH) and the H Balsom is yet to start a flow,,, a late crop for the Native black bees that will not have started shutting down for Winter...
Sadly their Mediterranean cousins will be on their second dose of Vita Glue and be stocking up on 2:1 by then!!!
Yeghes da
but I've never had much after the end of July here before.
Very heavy honey flow from the heather here, started to secrete heavily about twelve days ago, all colonies filling up fast, even the mini nucs.
Third supers needed and added at several different heather sites today.
Good grief 3 supers, if I get one full super off the heather on my site middleton in teesdale I consider to have done well.
Very heavy honey flow from the heather here, started to secrete heavily about twelve days ago, all colonies filling up fast, even the mini nucs.
Third supers needed and added at several different heather sites today.
Many of them started off with three empty supers just to accommodate the number of bees in them.
My hives are the same in that case but there all in one super, crowded to boiling point
Good grief 3 supers, if I get one full super off the heather on my site middleton in teesdale I consider to have done well.
What is the point of trying to crowd three supers packed full of bees into one super?
They sound to me more like the dinks we will be splitting up over the next few weeks to make over wintered nucs from, with new queens, if you can fit them all into a single super.
I think Finman's rules about pasture and distances may comes into play about yields.
Is your heather site situated right within the heather (fall out of hive to feed) or do they have to fly a distance to get to the heather?
but suspect this flow will come to a juddering halt pretty soon.
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