What did you do in the Apiary today?

[Walrus]

Treated one apiary with Oxalic Acid using sublimox (12 colonies).

 

[Beefriendly]

errrrhum...I'm sure you meant Apibioxal

 

[Walrus]

errrrhum...I'm sure you meant Apibioxal

Yes, of course

 

[Poly Hive]

At minus 6 absolutely nothing.

PH

 

[Portsoy]

Temperature was around 0C all day, so just a check on everything being weather tight

 

[Newbeeneil]

Checked 10 day mite drop on 3 hives in one apiary.
Hive 1 - 1 mite
Hive 2 - 0 mites
Hive 3 - 3 mites
I was chuffed with that

 

[Barbarian]

With school holidays in sight, I checked and maintained the fence.

 

[Antipodes]

I took time today to watch in wonder at the bees frantically dashing off from the hives to gather nectar. Very active today, even with a blustery cold front sweeping across. I wondered too if the new queens have been accepted and are laying in hives prepped for the leatherwoods, with just 2 weeks left until I take them.... and then I optimistically started making more honey supers in anticipation.

 

[enrico]

Weighed all my hives, some up 2lbs, some down 2lbs but no need for fondant. Then vaped them all. I use tablets . One had two as there was some evidence of varroa. The others got one tablet each. That put a hum up in the hives!!!!
Interestingly one inspection floor was covered in tiny black poo. When vaped there were loads of woodlice trying to get out! I don't think they harm the bees but could do without them!
E

 

[Erichalfbee]

Vaped all the hives
Fondant on one

 

[E&MBees]

Weighed all my hives, some up 2lbs, some down 2lbs but no need for fondant. Then vaped them all. I use tablets . One had two as there was some evidence of varroa. The others got one tablet each. That put a hum up in the hives!!!!
Interestingly one inspection floor was covered in tiny black poo. When vaped there were loads of woodlice trying to get out! I don't think they harm the bees but could do without them!
E

What tablets do you use? Do they sit in the vaporiser dish? Could they be used with a varrox vaporiser?

Thanks

 

[Erichalfbee]

What tablets do you use? Do they sit in the vaporiser dish? Could they be used with a varrox vaporiser?

Thanks

Oxalic tablets. They sit nicely in a varrox pan
Park Beekeeping do them, probably somebody else
Apibioxal is the only legal oxalic

 

[Millet]

It must be a day for vaping..done my Northumberland hives today and checked three with fondant on them..all is well for now ..- 2 last night and still frosty but the sun is on them none where tightly clustered and the odd bee doing poop flights...all poly by the way.

 

[enrico]

What tablets do you use? Do they sit in the vaporiser dish? Could they be used with a varrox vaporiser?

Thanks

https://www.bees-online.co.uk/detail.asp?ID=277&name=Oxalic-Acid-Tablets
These are from maisemore.
E

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Vaped all the hives
Fondant on one

Too cold for vaping here - bees are all tightly clustered

 

[Erichalfbee]

Too cold for vaping here - bees are all tightly clustered

2 degrees here.
I had a quick look through the crownboard at a couple and they were all walking about on the top bars so I went ahead.

 

[Poly Hive]

Minus six here, clear sky so going to get lower tonight that's for sure.

Time to put another log on the stove.

PH

 

[chipper]

A balmy 8c...Removed the last of the feeders and put on mouseguards on a couple of hives that got missed earlier...

 

[Millet]

Minus six here, clear sky so going to get lower tonight that's for sure.

Time to put another log on the stove.

PH

Plenty of logs have gone up the chimney here in this early winter weather not far from yee..

 

[For want of a better word]

Plenty of logs have gone up the chimney here in this early winter weather not far from yee..

Now have trailer loads of Ash being almost given away in this neck of the (once) woods.
Larch almost all gone, elm just a distant memory, birch and chestnut seem to be dominating.
I wonder if the population would take notice of what we are doing to our environment Nordman fir and the Norwegian spruce were to suffer a similar disease?
I just hope that more infected trees are not imported along with the beetles our foreign friends seem to be happy to live with , and sadly export.

2kg of fondant on colonies yesterday and matchsticks in place, monitor boards removed.

Time to sit back and read my Haynes Bee Manual and put another log in the fire