What did you do in the Apiary today?

[Millet]

Splatted a Virgin Queen two days ago in double brood which left them hopelessly Queen less, split them into two and give them half a frame each of eggs from a Island mated Danish Queen hopefully they get too work and make some nice gentle honey monster Queens like the last one Thanks N.
Also went through my other 2018 Danish F1 hive,the clipped marked Queen has vanished, the Queen cell i left in there has emerged but could i hell find the virgin Queen, i did however find six new Queen cells three of which where capped so i knocked the lot down, if i can make these hopelessly Queen less i will carefully cut a Queen cell from the split hives and give them one also.
Its hectic to say the least i have gone from three hives to a possible eight in just under three weeks, one is promised to someone though so thet will free a stand up when one of the five virgins gets laying three of which look mated the way they are fattening up, the lack of swallows seems to have give me 100% mating success up to now.
Cheers
Steve.

 

[beeno]

Splatted a Virgin Queen two days ago in double brood which left them hopelessly Queen less, split them into two and give them half a frame each of eggs from a Island mated Danish Queen hopefully they get too work and make some nice gentle honey monster Queens like the last one Thanks N.
Also went through my other 2018 Danish F1 hive,the clipped marked Queen has vanished, the Queen cell i left in there has emerged but could i hell find the virgin Queen, i did however find six new Queen cells three of which where capped so i knocked the lot down, if i can make these hopelessly Queen less i will carefully cut a Queen cell from the split hives and give them one also.
Its hectic to say the least i have gone from three hives to a possible eight in just under three weeks, one is promised to someone though so thet will free a stand up when one of the five virgins gets laying three of which look mated the way they are fattening up, the lack of swallows seems to have give me 100% mating success up to now.
Cheers
Steve.

Cheers Steve, Sorry but I could not stop laughing.

 

[Millet]

Cheers Steve, Sorry but I could not stop laughing.

Why ?..
I did not explain in detail which many forumites require, however i did not run to the toilet with bad Diarrhea and splatter up the wall and then have to clean the mess up, my reasons may become apparent over the next few weeks ..

 

[The Poot in Somerset]

Added syrup to the top feeder for my captured swarm.
We desperately need rain here - flowers are over as soon as they open and I reckon nectar is (probably) in short supply. No rain mentioned in the long range forecast either

 

[thibault]

Added syrup to the top feeder for my captured swarm.
We desperately need rain here - flowers are over as soon as they open and I reckon nectar is (probably) in short supply. No rain mentioned in the long range forecast either

Yep, no signs of any flow here, little nectar coming in

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[Somerford]

Morning and half the afternoon spent putting foundation into brood frames for expanding nucs. Then went out and distributed 12 empty hives to 3 new out Apiaries that are shortly coming on line. Fed a few nucs and expanded around 5 others

Bees exceedingly busy in every Apiary visited

Kr

S

 

[pargyle]

Cheers Steve, Sorry but I could not stop laughing.

Sadly, I think he's serious ...

 

[george]

School demo.

At one of my apiaries at 7 this morning . Pulled a frame of bees and mainly sealed brood to put in a frame cage . 2 frames sealed honey from a super also taken .
Set up at local country estate in their parkland along with the woodsman , deer manager and arable farm manager.
The local primary schools yr 2 and 3 arrived on the beaters wagon and gun carts and were split into groups . Each group had to listen to us witter for 45 minutes on our chosen subjects , then swap round and so on till everyone had seen the 4 groups.
I took various bits to show , a hive to build , lit smoker along with the aforementioned frame of bees .
The big surprise of the morning was the school being happy with the youngsters tasting the honey directly from the frames. I only had 2 that wouldn’t try and one girl who sadly couldn’t because of allergies. All the others got stuck in with sticky fingers .
4 hours , great fun and i think they learnt a bit . Best question of the morning , asked by two boys from different groups “ Is there a King Bee to go with the queen ?” Brilliant .

 

[Beefriendly]

Sadly, I think he's serious ...

He's going to have some seriously gentle honey monster queens in a few weeks time.

 

[Etton]

Flighty Queen

Decided to do AS as a number of QC's. Found queen and just as about to cage her, she flew off. Closed up and hope she returns.

 

[Millet]

Sadly, I think he's serious ...

Sadly I am deadly serious, i have had just shy of 90lb of honey from the Danish Queen up to now and i have a further four super to extract from them when they are fully capped, with my previous bees i was lucky if i got nine super frames of honey through out the full year, only a fool would pass on the chance of trying to rear more of these gentle honey monsters... so stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

 

[Millet]

Decided to do AS as a number of QC's. Found queen and just as about to cage her, she flew off. Closed up and hope she returns.

I had one fly of into the the sky last week, on my next inspection she was back in the hive.

 

[user 6228]

Positioned the colony for AT 9 but wet foggy weather this morning stopped us running them in.
This will need a return visit

 

[Curly green fingers]

Sadly I am deadly serious, i have had just shy of 90lb of honey from the Danish Queen up to now and i have a further four super to extract from them when they are fully capped, with my previous bees i was lucky if i got nine super frames of honey through out the full year, only a fool would pass on the chance of trying to rear more of these gentle honey monsters... so stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

 

[Beefriendly]

What the hell does this "owned" symbol mean?

 

[Curly green fingers]

What the hell does this "owned" symbol mean?

You've been owned, or you told him, or as Steve said stick that in your pipe and smoke it .I haven't heard that one for years .

 

[Beefriendly]

You've been owned, or you told him, or as Steve said stick that in your pipe and smoke it .I haven't heard that one for years .

Cheers..."stick that in your pipe and smoke it" works for me.

 

[pargyle]

I had one fly of into the the sky last week, on my next inspection she was back in the hive.

So much for clipped queens then ?

 

[Etton]

My dog found Queen

Saw my dog sniffing the ground last evening, she was curious about a bee which was a Q and marked yellow. Obviously not on a mating flight, and I'm pretty sure not one of mine. I only have apedias at home and none marked, and am certain none of the bees in the apedias when collected included a marked Q. Do queens if superseded ever get chucked out like drones and look for a new hive?

 

[Millet]

So much for clipped queens then ?

Keep up to date old chap.. do you mark and clip your virgin Queens by any chance..