johna
House Bee
- Joined
- Feb 11, 2010
- Messages
- 361
- Reaction score
- 0
- Location
- South West Scotland
- Hive Type
- national
- Number of Hives
- 20





Want to get them thro' the winter not unite.Go along and feed his bees?
Unite your two colonies so they are strong enough to resist these unwanted visitors.
Stop spilling feed around the apiary.
.
RAB
did the glass trick last year on a swarm covering 5 frames that appeared in october it was sucessful in detering the wasps dont know if it will with bees, theory was to put the glass across during the night when bees are in bed in morning they learn quickly how to fly out and around barricade but wasps have problems finding way in. might be worth a go with robbers. Could you maybe not speak to the other beek and explain that his bees are robbing and that it is all well and good him not doing much with his bees, however not fair if he expects your bees to feed his!! I had to have a similar discussion with someone at the pub the other day who bought bees and lets them do their own thing - hasnt been on courses, supprised that he hasnt got honey this year etc etc, he also didnt see any need to treat bees for varroa as he only had 1 or 2 mites drop in a day.We have, on one occasion, resorted to the “wet sheet over the whole hive” trick advocated by David Cramp. This seemed to reduce the frenzy a bit.
You are left with the problem of what to do after 24 hours when you’ve got to remove the sheet (we lent Perspex against the hive, with some foliage, to disguise the entrance, which seemed to sort things out).
We managed to intervene early on in the process, which may well have meant that these tricks were more effective.
Trouble is most of that thread (and others like it) referred to various ways of trapping wasps - bees being more fussy about what they land on/in to eat.Lot of threads on this- try the search box. One of the completest was 'its official' from kazmcc (see link)
http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6603&highlight=wasps
Good luck!
Enter your email address to join:
Register today and take advantage of membership benefits.
Enter your email address to join: