What did you do in the Apiary today?

[XYZ]

Had a walk around the garden today, checked the level of feed on my poly ashforth feeder (Abelo) and the bees have kind of stalled their taking it down. I had a look (as good as I could) and there were bees up there, just not a great deal of them. It appears there could be a few dead bees at syrup level getting in the way of things. That looks like it'll be tricky to clear with about 3-4 litres of syrup still in the feeder.

On another note, I'm impressed with the amount of warmth in the feeder each time I check. I put the crown board on top and then the roof and it's really warm each time. I don't want to do it more than necessary though because it's not fair to lose them all that hard-earned heat.

Maybe they've got enough stores now as the heft revealed they're pretty heavy! Of course the weight of the syrup and feeder have to be taken into account...

 

[For want of a better word]

Goimg a bit overboard after the OA vaping thread?

I would imagine a Kirby~Morgan and full suit would be relatively sting proof !

Chons da

 

[Swarm]

Hobbled around the apiary and gave four pints of thymol invert to each colony. First few ghost bees spotted, pollen mainly Ivy. It looks like I have less Balsam around every year.

 

[The Poot in Somerset]

Cleared two hunks of tree that had, fortunately missed the hives when they were blown down. Knackered my chainsaw by cutting into the jaws of my Superjaws - which aren't so super any more.
Made another batch of syrup.
Too windy between showers to take the roofs off to add syrup.
Bees very active despite the conditions and lots of gold pollen going in.

 

[Curly green finger's]

I've finished feeding at our clee hill apiary between 5 hives I've feed 40 kgs of sugar all that's left to do now is remove apivar strips in 10 days and change hive roofs to my home made deep roofs .
Moving on I've sold my warre hives so I'm able to buy more amm nucs.
I'm of to the river apiary tomorrow to weigh .
Then next week back to the farm and to my black girls ( amm) which haven't had any syrup but got left all the summer crop , except for a super of cut comb which is mine all mine and if anyone wants to buy it they'll have to part with thousands....

 

[Swarm]

A picture paints a thousand words ...... hint

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

finished extracting the heather honey - not much to show for the work but, as I didn't have to move bees (they can reach it from two apiaries) and there's no real interest in heather honey locally, two buckets of heather and two of heather mix is fine

 

[pargyle]

finished extracting the heather honey - not much to show for the work but, as I didn't have to move bees (they can reach it from two apiaries) and there's no real interest in heather honey locally, two buckets of heather and two of heather mix is fine

You should get a hydropress .. a doddle to extract it apparently !

 

[Curly green finger's]

A picture paints a thousand words ...... hint

Pictures of my roofs ? Or hives ? Cut comb?....

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[BMH]

You should get a hydropress .. a doddle to extract it apparently !

EDIT: sorry, removed link to your twitter account BMH

 

[Swarm]

Pictures of my roofs ? Or hives ? Cut comb?....

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The cut comb of course

 

[Curly green finger's]

The cut comb of course

I thought you would be interested in my bodged deap roofs ....
Not drooling over cut comb.
It's £2.50 a picture by the way how many do you want? Jokes of course.

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[Beefriendly]

You should get a hydropress .. a doddle to extract it apparently !

You are not wrong there . You simply fill it and turn on the tap....keeping an eye on the pressure gauge.

 

[Swarm]

Nearly missed the bucket.

 

[Brian Bush]

You are not wrong there . You simply fill it and turn on the tap....keeping an eye on the pressure gauge.

I had use of one of these presses this year. It was excellent and saved me a great deal of effort

 

[simonforeman]

Hives all fed and strong... opened a hive that had a queen cell last week. Looks like it's a supersedure as both the old marked queen and the virgin queen were happily roaming around on the same side of a frame. Its a first for me so will be interesting to see how it pans out.

 

[coatesg]

Just had one of my hives swarm this afternoon - gaah! Suicidal time to swarm, just hope I can catch them from the hedge they are in and box them up.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Just had one of my hives swarm this afternoon - gaah! Suicidal time to swarm, just hope I can catch them from the hedge they are in and box them up.

Good grief! I hope you can get them.
A good time to put a QX over the entrance of whatever you box them in too
More info so we can share your angst
What remains inside the swarmed hive?

 

[coatesg]

Good grief! I hope you can get them.
A good time to put a QX over the entrance of whatever you box them in too
More info so we can share your angst
What remains inside the swarmed hive?

Managed to grab them and letting them get themselves in the box - Q definitely in. Will need to go and peak in the boxes tomorrow. The weather has been lousy the last few days - they've picked the only couple of hours without rain to do so.

I'll pop then on a snelgrove board on top of another hive and qx above that in a short while. I'll have to merge them back together in a week or so I think....

 

[coatesg]

Got them on a false floor and QX on what I think is the parent hive just as the heavens opened!

Lots of brace comb at tops of frames below - wonder if they have just filled the box with ivy nectar - they have been v busy when weather hasn't been throwing it down. I'll pop a feeder on them later to give them a reason to stay - luckily had 5 drawn brood frames and the rest made up for them to get on with.