What did you do in the Apiary today?

[Nannysbees]

Thank you. It's a bit unexpected really. I'd mostly forgotten that it was a thing any more. I guess it was bound to catch up with us at some point.

James

I'm the only one that has miraculously escaped out of the whole family, and working in college!!!!!

 

[Erichalfbee]

I'm the only one that has miraculously escaped out of the whole family, and working in college!!!!!

Lot of symptom free cases.

 

[Newbeeneil]

Extracted about 120lb of honey this morning then went and checked on my nucs I made up a few weeks ago. All 10 have queens, 9 have brood and the tenth has a virgin in there.... really chuffed

 

[Newbeeneil]

When I went to take the supers off this morning 2 of the hives had cleared completely but the supers on the other hive were full of bees. I assumed that they didn't like the clearer board so I changed it for a 2 corner rhombus and placed a drawn super under it. Went back this afternoon and still no change. I then assumed that the hive was q- but no, loads of bias on 9 frames!
Anyone any idea what is going on?

 

[Wilco]

Brood in supers?

 

[Wilco]

Got round three sites. Two seem to have found something in the last week. Not a crazy amount but still something. One definitely thin on the ground with stores although a trickle coming in. Will be taking more feed to them next week.

Mini nucs doing ok. Larger nucs a mixed bag, those where the queen was rejected are rearing new queens and one turned DLQ so down to 6/10 overall on those I believe. Really gutted about the DLQ.

However, on one of the sites with something, it appears to be heather! Quietly hopeful. Two more sites to check tomorrow.

 

[ericbeaumont]

Turns out to be Covid

New variant, James?

 

[Newbeeneil]

Brood in supers?

Nope!

 

[Nannysbees]

Met a beekeeper at trago mills today Lorne east from sirhowy valley, quite a character!!!!! Anyone know him?

 

[Goran]

Cells onto bars.. Will see how it will go further.. It is so humid and hot weather.. I was like thrown into a pool.. Bees jumpy, can't blame them.. Later on had some work in the orchard, again sweat all the way.. Tomorrow will be less intensive, just the boards, out ( cloake board method)..

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

just a slack Sunday afternoon bimble - went to one apiary to hive a nuc then went up to the range to bring back the remains of a stack of supers I keep up there during the summer and also sort out an unite I made a week ago (top box of a 2 queen Demaree onto a failed supersedure) all looked god but I'll insp3ct properly in the next week or so.

 

[Hedgerow Honey]

Met a beekeeper at trago mills today Lorne east from sirhowy valley, quite a character!!!!! Anyone know him?

He is quie a character, enough so as to blatantly steal my registered trademark It seems .

 

[Cuckmere couple]

took off summer honey on sunday and finished yesterday, now recovering

 

[Curly green finger's]

Checking on introduced/ united colony’s and I’ve finished extracting the spring honey I’ve got six full buckets of cappings for the bees to clean up or I might put them in a drum and spin the water honey out.

 

[user 819]

Garden colony put the clearer board on for the last super , stores are being laid down in the BB .
Whilst checking for stores in the BB, I also check on the QR situation as they were supersceding so haven't looked for 4.5 weeks.

Found a case of perfect SS , a new daughter Q hovering around four frames of brood and the clipped/marked mother Q on another frame.

 

[Nannysbees]

Oxalic treatment yesterday and the results are in:-

Poppy 3 -(swarm united with queenless hive)

Tinker 0- (swarm)

Daisy 151 -(double brood monster hive,this year's buckfast)

Winnie 6- swarm with 20 bees, did a split took brood and bees from Rosie, double brood monster hive)

Rosie 65 (New buckfast this year, monster hive)

When we caught the swarms we gave them an oxalic blast that may have resulted in the low numbers, the swarms are still on single brood but are strong colonies

Will continue to treat over the coming weeks hopefully we'll have strong colonies going into winter

 

[Redcap]

Added wasp protection (as in conduit) to entrances, continued Apiguard application...and pontificated for a while on moving a growing swarm from their national nuc, into a 14x12 nuc...but in the end, decided to leave them alone !

Spent several minutes just observing activity at the entrances...and several more amazing minutes watching their very specific flight path...a clear two way direction of heavy bee traffic; the forage must be good... looked like a bee version of the M3 !

 

[Cuckmere couple]

still knackered from weekend...but washed the spinner

 

[Nannysbees]

Girls out enjoying the sunshine and I enjoyed watching them

 

[gregior]

Checked the supers after 10 days away, much much better very good balsam flow on , all the 1/2 full supers are now filled-season saved thanks to the balsam.