major ivy flow

[richardbees]

Originally Posted by Roola View Post
wish i could say the same... mine seem to have called it a year. Slow and steady comings and goings with pollen but nothing to write home about.

But you've fed them full, right, so no big deal, gve or take the price of some sugar?
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.....looks like you're being stalked Roola!

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

.....looks like you're being stalked Roola!

Hahaha. I just thought I remembered a post to that effect.

 

[JohnRoss]

Never seen flow like this, every for the last week it the bees have been very active dawn to dusk, so much activity it looks like robbing. Pollen is a light yellow colour

 

[Roola]

Originally Posted by Roola View Post
wish i could say the same... mine seem to have called it a year. Slow and steady comings and goings with pollen but nothing to write home about.

But you've fed them full, right, so no big deal, gve or take the price of some sugar?
http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/sho...postcount=9467


.....looks like you're being stalked Roola!

Come to think of it... There has been this black van parked outside my flat the last two weeks with a satellite dish on the roof.......

 

[richardbees]

this black van parked outside my flat

nah! that's just TV licensing...

 

[pargyle]

I have two really big trees in the garden which I have allowed Ivy to clamber over (the gardens a bit of a wildlife haven anyway) - one of the trees is only 10 foot or so away from the hive. I thought bees did not, usually, forage within about 300 metres of the hive but mine are all over the ivy in the nearest tree this morning. I know they are mine because I've been watching them come out of the hive, straight up in the air, do about a 12 foot circle and then straight to the ivy. Not all of them are heading for the tree ... some are still heading North as they usually do. Oddly, the other tree which is about 30 foot away has more ivy in blossom and they are not touching that one (yet !).

The ivy has been a long time really opening this year ... first signs were nearly 4 weeks ago when some of the buds around the main flowers started to open but it's just the last few days when things have really begun to happen with it.

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

Sadly it all looks like it might be coming to an end.

 

[jd101k2000]

This is definitely the strongest flow of the year for my girls - orange/yellow pollen coming in by the bucket load. Can hear them from 20 or 30' away! Also working hard at night with fanning the hive. If we have a warm day, I will be having a peek.

 

[Cazza]

If we have a warm day, I will be having a peek.

Why? Leave them alone unless you have a purpose. curiosity is not a good enough reason to interfere.
Cazza

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Why? Leave them alone unless you have a purpose. curiosity is not a good enough reason to interfere.
Cazza

Time to leave them get cwtched in now for the winter, just heft to get a feel of the weight of stores.

 

[Roola]

Time to leave them get cwtched in now for the winter, just heft to get a feel of the weight of stores.

I'm new to all this hefting business! I've been practicing on my girlfriend which she's not taken to kindly to...

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

I'm new to all this hefting business! I've been practicing on my girlfriend which she's not taken to kindly to...

Perhaps you're not doing it right.

I'd be happy to come and demonstrate.

D

 

[mbc]

Perhaps you're not doing it right.

I'd be happy to come and demonstrate.

D

Thats what I like about the forum, people going out of their way to be helpful !