What did you do in the Apiary today?

[Beefriendly]

One hive had the expected ant nursery on the crown board - taking advantage of the heat from the colony to incubate the eggs,

That is quite remarkable. Never seen ants bringing their eggs out to take advantage of the heat. Must be bloody cold in Wales

 

[BeeCool]

Painted the poly nuc and now I’m wondering how I’m going to put the feed in that I’ve prepared!?!

I found a wasps nest above my home front door - quite close to the hives- and I filled the entrance with gutter sealant. The wasps don’t look too happy so I’m pleased I gave up my initial attempts to suit up!

 

[george]

Took two recently arrived swarms from my garden and donated them to a chap on the beating line on a local shoot.
Not had bees before so this year he has me as mentor . Loaned him the kit for two hives and we will come to an arrangement if he continues next year .
Nice docile bees both with laying queens , no gloves required but I won’t be suggesting he try the same trick.

 

[Podilia]

Two months drought is over in Western and Central Ukraine. Heavy rains and thunderstorm are here now. Yesterday the temperature fell down from 30 to 14°C. It can restrain sunflower from too early flowering. I still hope to extract some of buckwheat honey before sunflower. Before sunflower's expansion to the north and west, buckwheat was the main plant for bees here.
Some pictures of my neighbourhood just before the thunderstorm. My garden is there. The cow is not mine.

 

[Finman]

That is quite remarkable. Never seen ants bringing their eggs out to take advantage of the heat. Must be bloody cold in Wales

That is in my forest hives very usual. Pyrethrine spray helps.
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[Beefriendly]

That is in my forest hives very usual. Pyrethrine spray helps.
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Must be bloody cold in Finland as well ....
Interesting ant behaviour nevertheless.

 

[Finman]

Must be bloody cold in Finland as well ....
Interesting ant behaviour nevertheless.

If 25C is bloody

 

[Beefriendly]

If 25C is bloody

Your command of English is getting much better.
With no night in Finland at the moment your bees must be working 24/7.

 

[Finman]

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I think that ants seek rain cover from beehives or under many kind of boards on ground.

 

[Finman]

Your command of English is getting much better.
With no night in Finland at the moment your bees must be working 24/7.

I let you to keep your belief.

 

[Millet]

Went through Most of the Nucs and colonies today with Mike99 , good news for Mike his Nuc has a laying Queen which i marked and clipped, another nuc also has a laying queen but one is still holding back...the F2 colony has a Queen somewhere but could i hell find her.
The best news is the split i done last week that i got slated for by the forum Cranks has many Queen cells in both sides of the split from the frame of egg's gifted to me by Beefriendly , these Island mated Keld Queens are something else.
If i find the Queen tomorrow that i could not find today, she will be splattered and the colony will get a Queen cell from the test frames..
100% Queen mating's up to now..

 

[simonforeman]

Sounds like you had a good day millet, like me....

Went through hives...
Double brood that will be requeened was calm today with a few bouncing off veil but no followers after. They are drawing out super foundation well and storing loads of nectar in bb.
14x12 hive is filling it's first super well. This came through winter weak and is now building up well
Swarm I caught few weeks back now on 7 frames in full hive and drawing the others. VERY calm, could not find queen but every available cell is being laid in and lovely frame patten. Good advice on here helped me with this first swarm
Nuc with bought queen been out cage and laying well. Will be in nuc until I'm happy all ok with double brood hive then newspaper combine.

Enjoying my first year so far and could go into winter with 3 or 4 hives.

 

[Machonachos]

Checked purchased nuc and supered up and some general frame clean up.

First inspection of captured swarm 12 days after capture. Queen marked and everything looking good.

Moved captured swarm from nuc to hive and added feed... they lost a lot of bees to starvation but they are doing well now.

... then cleaned up the poly nuc, what a mess they make!!!


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[The Poot in Somerset]

Buckfast colony - supposedly non swarmy - lovely sealed queen cell on the bottom of a frame in the top super! Went through all boxes and no sign of the queen - couldn't find eggs but very young brood present. Can only assume Bertha has left home and perhaps it's she who took up residence in my poly bait hive. Once fully established I'll dive in there and see if she has the grace to blush. Meanwhile my colony from a captured swarm last year is going from strength to strength and could really do with splitting. But as the nuc is taken and I don't want a fourth colony I decided to let them bee.
Rusty on Honeybee Suite reckons the colony numbers gradually decline after the solstice so it's best to leave them as robust as possible to go into the Winter and perhaps to yield more honey.
But for a nectar flow we need rain!!!

 

[Hachi]

Checked the hive with the 2nd GM Q in a cage had been released. Nope, so I put cage on top bars, watched for a while and released her into her new home. She had nearly doubled in size so wasn't expecting any drama but you never know.

Took a super full of honey off another hive and looked at another super from another hive but they are really fa*ting about as they still haven't sealed the super full of honey for the past three weeks at least.

This honey will more than be sufficient for the wedding favours next year.

 

[Zante]

Added a third super on my main hive. Chestnut flow has started, and I might have to add a fourth one in a couple of weeks. Could be in a week, but the comb in that super is quite damaged, so a lot will go in repairing it.

Split hive seems ok. Had just a very quick look. Don't want to disturb them while they're nursing their new queen.

Of course after checking the second hive I found the super I prepared with the comb in much better condition
Oh well... it'll be ready for when I have to add the next.

I would have extracted the two supers that my main hive currently has on and are full, but the bee shop that rented their extractor closed down, so I'll have to either crush and strain, or buy one, and right now I have very literally nowhere to put it, as my garage is full of stuff to be taken to the tip (and when I mean full I mean at least a skipful of junk)

 

[olriley]

Added a third super on my main hive. Chestnut flow has started)

Interesting, where do you live?




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[thibault]

I think Italy

Interesting, where do you live?




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[Anduril]

Interesting, where do you live?




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Florence Italy

 

[Millet]

Moved a mated Queen from a Nuc into a full brood box, they are only on four frames of brood and stores but the weather is nice and when the Queen gets going these bees sharp fill the frames,i could have left it another week but it is going to a new home on Saturday so it will give the bees time to stick everything together for there journey.
Also went through a Queenless double brood split that has a frame of danish eggs in each, removed many queen cells and left each split with one Queen cell, nicked a frame of stores from one of the splits for another Nuc with a newly mated Queen.
The weather has been glorious and the bees have been behaving like little babies, no veil needed for a couple of colonies but just to be on the safe side i wore it and these Oz Armour bee suits come into there own with weather like this, it is the first time today that i have inspected the hives with bare skin under the jacket.. Amazing.