MJBee
Drone Bee
- Joined
- Dec 4, 2008
- Messages
- 1,812
- Reaction score
- 1
- Location
- Dordogne 24360 France
- Hive Type
- Commercial
- Number of Hives
- 16 a mix of Commercial, National, 14 x 12, Dadant and a Warre
With apologies in advance to all those still suffering sub zero temperatures.
The weather here is unbelievable, last week -5C with snow, today +14C snow all gone.
All 11 colonies out and about on cleansing flights, even the mini nuc (a doubledecker Apidea) was active.
I took the opportunity to clear the mouse guards of casualties, only a few in all but one hive. This hive is giving cause for concern, it is the one that refused to expand beyond 3 frames of brood and it had a good cup full of dead bees on the OMF, no sign of fouling but I suspect nosema even though it was fed Hivemakers emulsified thymol syrup in the autumn. Anyone any ideas on how to deal with this colony either now or in the future?
The weather here is unbelievable, last week -5C with snow, today +14C snow all gone.
All 11 colonies out and about on cleansing flights, even the mini nuc (a doubledecker Apidea) was active.
I took the opportunity to clear the mouse guards of casualties, only a few in all but one hive. This hive is giving cause for concern, it is the one that refused to expand beyond 3 frames of brood and it had a good cup full of dead bees on the OMF, no sign of fouling but I suspect nosema even though it was fed Hivemakers emulsified thymol syrup in the autumn. Anyone any ideas on how to deal with this colony either now or in the future?