goodbobby
House Bee
- Joined
- Jul 12, 2009
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- Location
- Sanderstead Surrey
- Hive Type
- 14x12
- Number of Hives
- 5+
Do any of you old experienced hands have any views on the possible downside of this very long warm spell that seems to be going on and on????
My 3 colonies here in Surrey are still out and about in a temperature of 10.2 degrees C but there seems to be little forage and they don't seem to be tightly clustered. All 3 have fondant but I can see that I may have to replenish this for a while yet and a prolonged cold snap (for OA application) seems a distant . I know that these temperatures are probably unprecedented and my concern is that some Beeks may unwittingly let over active colonies starve because of these unusual circumstances!!!!!!
My 3 colonies here in Surrey are still out and about in a temperature of 10.2 degrees C but there seems to be little forage and they don't seem to be tightly clustered. All 3 have fondant but I can see that I may have to replenish this for a while yet and a prolonged cold snap (for OA application) seems a distant . I know that these temperatures are probably unprecedented and my concern is that some Beeks may unwittingly let over active colonies starve because of these unusual circumstances!!!!!!