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The bees are, though.So I am none the wiser.
The bees are, though.So I am none the wiser.
The bees are, though.
When was the photo taken ? Do you have any OSR within flying distance ?
About a mile away. perhaps. Haven't been past recently, it may be over. Taken last Friday.When was the photo taken ? Do you have any OSR within flying distance ?
Tell them sooner forget the weather, the weather doesn’t know what its doing you doIn that case once the weather improves I shall ask them about it.
James
Would you do this even if you had OSR on the hives? This is only the second year my bees have been near OSR and it’s usually a mix and i’m keen not to have it mix with future honey but would happily leave it for them till the risk of a june gap has passed.What’s the stores like in the brood chambers, I have a couple of apiaries where the may/June gape is early and it’s probably going to last for another week or two, like you they are using some of the stores in the supers they are big colony’s so I will be leaving the supers on untill they are capped.
First extraction will be mid June by which time the flow would of started again.
I walked around one of them today and the clover and brambles are a good 10 days away even though there are lots of garden flowers I will wait untill mid June which seams to be the norm for those apiaries,
Up on high ground the hawthorn is flowering well but this weather is not consistent enough
I have seen that during recent inspections too. Loads of buttercups around here and no OSR...
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