What did you do in the Apiary today?

[Millet]

Added more supers to two and juggled the brood frames out of the bottom box of double brood into the top box so all the brood is directly below the super and queen excluder, removed full brood frames of honey and replaced with fresh foundation in the bottom brood box, lets see if that works..

 

[The Poot in Somerset]

Just watched the bees come and go in the sunshine. Made up a dozen cardboard smoker fuel rolls. Had a couple of beers.

 

[Curly green fingers]

Just watched the bees come and go in the sunshine. Made up a dozen cardboard smoker fuel rolls. Had a couple of beers.

Sounds like a lovely Sunday afternoon it has been a nice day!

 

[colinc]

Not Bees but...

...these are a new one for me when it comes to garden birds...

Had a couple of Red Kites doing laps over the garden and I think it was a courtship as they were diving towards the garden two houses down and picking up branches of conifer and dropping them and chasing them

 

[Erichalfbee]

Lovely
We have a pair nesting in a tree at the bottom of the garden
We have the nest on a scope and they are feeding a couple of fluffy chicks

 

[Millet]

The keepers I know like them and feed them but for some reason the mass re introduced predator of ground nesting birds seem to disappear for one reason or other, not enough food,, ? .

 

[colinc]

We are not particularly close to any of the "commercial feeding stations" for Red Kites so its rare for us to see them. Saw one pass through last year but these were around for 20-30 minutes so may be nesting close. I don't know. We are 10-15 miles south of Birmingham so we are far from normal Kite territory.

 

[justsmith]

One of my hives was full of swarm cells but caught it in time before the queen left.

 

[madasafish]

Added frame of stores plus one of undrawn foundation, two frames emerging brood plus nurse bees from one hive to an empty 5 frame jumbo Lang nuc, added another frame brood and bees from another hive, united with air freshener .
Then after two minutes united with an existing 5 frame jumbo nuke (using air freshener ) to form a two nuc hive for cloake board queen rearing..(Cloake board not yet installed.) Fed.

Job done in sun, 15C ambient, no smoke in under 10 mins.. Bees just looked at me..

Picture shows bottom nuc (ex Thornes) std Lang extended with 50mm Celotex, upper nuc home made from Celotex with added handles for lifting..

Double Lang full jumbos I used last year were tooooooo heavy..

 

[Noddy]

Split a double brood national to make two hives, checked the hives that I re-queened last week to make sure the queens were out of the cages, all good with fresh eggs in all three.

Checked a couple of nucs, including one with a swarm caught on Saturday.

 

[Beefriendly]

Checked my bees on the OSR ...they are piling it in. Added 3rd and 4th supers to cope with the volume. ...and fine weather forecast for the next week. They are certainly making up for a slow start, best was on 16 frames of wall to wall brood.

 

[For want of a better word]

Lovely
We have a pair nesting in a tree at the bottom of the garden
We have the nest on a scope and they are feeding a couple of fluffy chicks

Wish we had kites.... still waiting for the Swifts to arrive ... verry late this year!

Wondering what to do with the OSR supers.... full ( 16 so far ) would it make soap.. stinks like rancid monkey droppings!!

Any ideas????

Yeghes da

 

[Anduril]

Wish we had kites.... still waiting for the Swifts to arrive ... verry late this year!

Wondering what to do with the OSR supers.... full ( 16 so far ) would it make soap.. stinks like rancid monkey droppings!!

Any ideas????

Yeghes da

Cornish Manuka!

 

[Erichalfbee]

still waiting for the Swifts to arrive ... verry late this year!


Yeghes da

Yes they are very late. Swallows were early though.

 

[For want of a better word]

Cornish Manuka!

I will leave that to Tre******!!

 

[Erichalfbee]

https://beekeepingforum.co.uk/showpost.php?p=627136&postcount=8

This Queen is now laying on all five frames of a 14x12 nuc and looking very fat.
I put them into a bigger box

 

[Swarm]

https://beekeepingforum.co.uk/showpost.php?p=627136&postcount=8

This Queen is now laying on all five frames of a 14x12 nuc and looking very fat.
I put them into a bigger box

 

[Curly green fingers]

Hive inspection this after looks like I had missed some QC up to 5 ow dear 2 capped and 2 uncapped on the same frame and one good sized Qc on the opposite frame uncapped. I've removed all but one good sized capped QC . I've moved the drawn comb from the out side and put them either side of the frame with the QC on there's plenty of stores in the brood both capped and uncapped. My super has three frames capped honey and the rest are heavy but not capped. My first good flow is on. Cherry, blackthorn, crab apple sycamore all the trees. Should I put another super on ? Im in the mind to wait until my new queen is hopefully laying ? Any advice welcome as always.cheers mark.

I just wanted to add there's still also capped brood .16 drone brood cells I counted I'm not counting the rest

 

[JWF]

https://beekeepingforum.co.uk/showpost.php?p=627136&postcount=8

This Queen is now laying on all five frames of a 14x12 nuc and looking very fat.
I put them into a bigger box

From little acorns and all that

 

[Beefriendly]

Wondering what to do with the OSR supers.... full ( 16 so far )

Good to hear your Italian bees are bringing in the bacon.