What did you do in the Apiary today?

[wightbees]

Pleased it's going well now millet

 

[Millet]

Pleased it's going well now millet

Thank you and all the best for a good summer crop to you.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

nit much today as have been pottering in the worshop - Hived a new queen I raise - emerged 29/5, laying by 7/6 the latest, now on nearly five frames of BIAS. confirmed the other two queens emerging that day mated and just started laying and another three later queens also with polished cells and settled bees supered another couple of hives and loaded up the truck for tomorrow's rounds

 

[gregior]

Relocated a swarm that had occupied the roof of my bait hive into the brood box.Still a very big flow on here despite the decidedly mediocre weather conditions.

 

[wightbees]

I have had broken rib for three weeks now and finding it very hard keeping up with bees and main business: ( I'm very lucky that my partner loves working the bees though and this weekend we have managed to check most colonies and add 25 boxes to those that need it. Can't wait until I'm better though...

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Association apiary this morning - lessons cancelled due to iffy weather but a few jobs I had to do - supering hives and during a pleasant brea in the weather checking the nucs and marking queens ready for picing up by the beginners next week. All queens bat the latet emerger laying like trains.
Home then up to the Carreg apiary, dropping off spare supers and supering one or two.
Decided to check on the one nuc up there to see if the queen had mated. First frame just a slab of stores so put it to one side for more space, quick shufti through the nuc showed polished cells, eggs and larvae all in a nice pattern but no sign of the queen, although I didn't look too hard. Picked up the frame of stores and wondering whether to put it to one side and give them an empty drawn frame as they had a fair bit of stores or just leave it just in case when, with hardly any bees around her across the capped honey wandered madam!!
that was a close one

 

[Millet]

Association apiary this morning - lessons cancelled due to iffy weather but a few jobs I had to do - supering hives and during a pleasant brea in the weather checking the nucs and marking queens ready for picing up by the beginners next week. All queens bat the latet emerger laying like trains.
Home then up to the Carreg apiary, dropping off spare supers and supering one or two.
Decided to check on the one nuc up there to see if the queen had mated. First frame just a slab of stores so put it to one side for more space, quick shufti through the nuc showed polished cells, eggs and larvae all in a nice pattern but no sign of the queen, although I didn't look too hard. Picked up the frame of stores and wondering whether to put it to one side and give them an empty drawn frame as they had a fair bit of stores or just leave it just in case when, with hardly any bees around her across the capped honey wandered madam!!
that was a close one

You always pick up on my spelling and grammar, enlighten me.

 

[madasafish]

Requeened my horrible hive..

 

[Fritillary]

Baffled, yet again.
The queen cell in my first mini hive queen-rearing attempt looks suspiciously as though it wasn't fully drawn out after it was put in. I don't think I damaged it. Perhaps it was shaken up or they were too hot in there?
Two nationals are stuffed with everything: brood, bees, stores inc extra flying buttresses of honey-filled comb below the queen excluders (one metal+wood, the other plastic) but not much action above. Do many people use queen excluders? I've little experience with them but it looks to me as though no-one wants to cross them, apart from the queen! - These excluders were above the first super.
And, in the Q- half of a split in which I saw eggs for the first time 26th May and plenty of bees orientating just a few days ago? No brood at all apart from 1 or 2-day old, ok-looking (I hope!) eggs in small patches on 3 combs. A few queen cups plus one in the centre of a comb but not fully extended. Not much in the way of stores either. I can't imagine they would have swarmed in that time. Supersedure then?
No. On reflection, I must have duffed up the queen when I saw the eggs mustn't I (!!) - Thought I'd been v careful too - unlike another "manipulation" when I was almost sure I had done for a queen - and then that one miraculously survived!
Oh well at least there are eggs in all 3 hives here.

 

[B+.]

I was going through some old files and came across this (https://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/album.php?albumid=751&pictureid=3831). I thought it might interest those of you who are into Buckfast bees. Everything now is done on computers so its a reminder of how things used to be.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Lovely
1997, my beekeeping was just a glint in my eye

 

[Millet]

I have had broken rib for three weeks now and finding it very hard keeping up with bees and main business: ( I'm very lucky that my partner loves working the bees though and this weekend we have managed to check most colonies and add 25 boxes to those that need it. Can't wait until I'm better though...

I feel your pain i have done mine three times over the years and it is no fun, it took me around five weeks on each occasion to recover, just keep on top of the pain killers as they relax to muscles around the injury which aids the healing.

 

[Angularity]

I finally twigged that the hive that was enduring a lot of robbing from the black bees in my neighbours chimney was actually suffering from CBPV. So, I prepared a new clean box then shook them out twenty feet away, to try to reduce the number of infected bees in the hive. The healthy ones are back in the hive now, so let's hope I've slowed it down a bit.

 

[Fritillary]

Angularity - I hope that works for you. Please let us know.

 

[madasafish]

Requeened another full Lang and a nuc.

Could not find queen in a two frame nuc to requeen...

!

 

[Erichalfbee]

Marked five queens and set up a unite for tonight

Tried but failed to find the one queen I do need to. Both newly introduced queens are up and running. Hooray!
Caught three swarms a few days ago and put a frame of brood into each. One had drawn emergency QCs so am uniting it to one of the other that are queenright

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

You always pick up on my spelling and grammar, enlighten me.

Typing with only one eye working whilst tired

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[gregior]

Turning into a fairly epic season here,my 4 cast swarms are all nicely mated and my producer colonies are still piling in the bramble and clover nectar despite the weather being not too clever.

 

[Fusion_power]

Extracting honey now. I still have about half the crop to take off. Will try to get it done this week.

 

[Millet]

Typing with only one eye working whilst tired

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How on Earth do you type with your Eye, my cornea would stick to the key board if i tried that, just messing.