I trod on a bee last night... Somehow got into my shoe while I was wearing it whilst taping up some gaps between extracted shallows...I was stung on my neck by a hitchhiker I hadn’t noticed as I unzipped my veil…..after putting clearers on.
I often get them in one of my apiaries, they love to hide under the roofs as well.Went out this morning to start clearing the supers in the out apiaries and had a little helper which was happily sunbathing while I sorted through the frames.
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I’ve just collected a few more supers this evening. Saw a large, probably buck hare and could hear a male Red Kite calling in the field next door.A day collecting the last of the supers and what a beautiful day. It started well as I had a treat overhead as I was loading the vehicle with a pair of Peregrine falcons shrieking and performing aerobatics, what a sight. I arrived at the farm to a Red Kite circling above the farmhouse and joined later by another and a pair of Buzzards.
The bees were in a delightful mood and very busy, enjoying the sun.
OMG!Just been to collect some stuff from my honey room only to find that the bees from my adjacent hives seem to have found a way into it. Early tomorrow I’ll be sealing it up with gaffa tape!
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Been to clean up this morning at 0545 before the bees were up. Most of the bees from last night had returned to their hives and the bees in the bucket were not drowned as there was only a few mm of honey in there.OMG!
I think that is nearly as awful as Doug Pearce's beetastrophe!
Look at that bucket of drowned bees!
Phew.....sorry `about the hyperbole ....at least I didn't call them "girls"bees in the bucket were not drowned as there was only a few mm of honey
Whoops!Just been to collect some stuff from my honey room only to find that the bees from my adjacent hives seem to have found a way into it. Early tomorrow I’ll be sealing it up with gaffa tape!
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Space ok?Second time today they did this!! They have a feeder on but obviously something is wrong!!
Nylon scourer and elbow grease!Same here but wasps!
The wasps have found a way into my honey extraction shed… agh.
Being at the end of the season my car inside has lots of bee poo all over the doors & windows…. any tips for bee poo removal?
Yes they are over four sides of the framed, put a dummy board in and they have a frame of pollen and a feeder on, back out again today, queen looks small!!Space ok?
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