beeboybee
Field Bee
- Joined
- May 5, 2009
- Messages
- 751
- Reaction score
- 14
- Location
- QUANTOCKS - SOMERSET
- Hive Type
- 14x12
- Number of Hives
- 6 >12 - 14x12 + Nucs
I have two hives
1st hive on standard brood i felt was a bit light even after feeding syrup going into winter, today i checked the hives this afternoon this hive was buzzing inside, and when i looked through the crown board ( i have a small piece of perspex covering one of the porter bee escapes) i could see lots of movement. so i am pretty happy with this hive and will give some fondant next weekend to top up.
2nd hive is another story.....14 x 12 brood. was really really heavy of stores going into winter. today i could not hear any sounds from inside i checked through my small perspex panel in the crownboard i could not see any bee's.... after stressing for 15mins i decided to to open the crown board and take a quick peek..... i saw some sluggish bees but did not keep the crown board open for more than 6 seconds! so it was hard to tell if there where lots of hardly any bee's
on both hives there where a few dead on the OMF but not a massive pile
my question is apart from worrying and adding fondant can i do anything o help my bee's through the winter......
1st hive on standard brood i felt was a bit light even after feeding syrup going into winter, today i checked the hives this afternoon this hive was buzzing inside, and when i looked through the crown board ( i have a small piece of perspex covering one of the porter bee escapes) i could see lots of movement. so i am pretty happy with this hive and will give some fondant next weekend to top up.
2nd hive is another story.....14 x 12 brood. was really really heavy of stores going into winter. today i could not hear any sounds from inside i checked through my small perspex panel in the crownboard i could not see any bee's.... after stressing for 15mins i decided to to open the crown board and take a quick peek..... i saw some sluggish bees but did not keep the crown board open for more than 6 seconds! so it was hard to tell if there where lots of hardly any bee's
on both hives there where a few dead on the OMF but not a massive pile
my question is apart from worrying and adding fondant can i do anything o help my bee's through the winter......