What did you do in the Apiary today?

[madasafish]

Watched bees attempting to drown themselves in drinker beside greenhouse - despite sponge and twigs and string to prevent that.

Watched the light rain .. decided to weed and feed grass before it rained properly. Job done - rained overnight... moss nicely black to show bits missed. Redid the missing bits this am.

All set up for snow and frost. No bees out today.

What does "drought" mean?

 

[Firefly]

What does "drought" mean?

On Sunday I stood in a 50 acre field of OSR that was visibly wilting. I wonder if bees will find it a lot less productive than usual this year

 

[Skyhook]

Got up early to put a hivestrap onto the wood/poly combo hive (thanks MikeA!)

Occured to me that while I dont imagine a laden poly super is hugely different in weight to a cedar version, the roof is considerably lighter.

Given the winds forecast from tonight- put a concrete block on top of the cedar hive.

My plywood supers and roofs weigh about the same as a concrete block anyway.


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[drstitson]

"On Sunday I stood in a 50 acre field of OSR that was visibly wilting"

are they short of professional scarecrows in warwickshire?

 

[Firefly]

"On Sunday I stood in a 50 acre field of OSR that was visibly wilting"

are they short of professional scarecrows in warwickshire?

http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/web/corporate/pages.nsf/Links/DE4E128686CCF260802574BA003BC1E0

That's me on the left. As you see I prefer Marigolds to leather

 

[Erichalfbee]

Watched it snow this afternoon

 

[Cazza]

Looks as if my gamble to put supers on over the crownboard has paid off. I was worried about the cold weather making heating additional space tricky but expansion room was needed at the same time.
Result after 5 days is half filled supers despite some coldish days in Suffolk. I will have a lot to do at the weekend in terms of supers, combines and BB swaps IF the weather is warm enough.
The good news is it's just started to rain
Cazza

 

[keithgrimes]

Watched it snow this afternoon

Me too Eric

 

[drstitson]

teeming with rain here this evening.

In anticipation of the desperately needed water resulting in a decent flow from the acres and acres of yellow blooms with in a mile or so radius i painted a couple of MB poly nat supers for my strongest hive and assembled a corresponding batch of manley frames for them.

hopefully the weather first thing won't be too bad for a rapid supering (and a quick peek through the polycarbonate crownboards of my other colonies).

 

[nosmoking]

http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/web/corporate/pages.nsf/Links/DE4E128686CCF260802574BA003BC1E0

That's me on the left. As you see I prefer Marigolds to leather

If you look to the right you're being burgled!!

 

[Firefly]

If you look to the right you're being burgled!!

Is it me, or is the entire image slightly disturbing? Wicker Man meets The Omen ?

 

[madasafish]

After watching the rain yesterday, walked two miles this am in sleet/snow..
Left heater on in greenhouse and fleece over seedlings : going to be cold all day and frost tonight.

All hives OK despite gusts so strong at times when walking I stopped involuntarily.

Rebuilt part of wind demolished turkey pen. Turkey not best pleased...

 

[Silly Bee]

What did I do today?

What, in this snow?

 

[susbees]

Quite so. Cherry, sloe and damson blossom draped in snow.

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[psafloyd]

Lots of rain last night and bees are out and pretty busy today.

 

[jallen]

put out bait hives and dusted of two nationals for new coloneys

 

[Juststarting]

Lit the fire and watched a film, snowed in by deep snow thats now drifting!

 

[Browntea]

Put a board in front of the hive after i watched one of them come out, land on the snow and die!!

 

[Erichalfbee]

Blimey!
It's been cold here but sunny
A few bees out when it hit 8˚
-4 expected overnight

 

[Phayze]

changed omf as old one getting a bit messy and a few dead bees on it im guessing a little to cold for the bees to bring out their dead, hive is getting heavier now