What did you do in the Apiary today?

[tonybloke]

racked off, filtered and bottles another 10 bottles of mead.

 

[WelshPaul]

Weighed my hive today as never hefted before. The hive is a brood and a half with a miller feeder, about half a gallon left in feeder. All in all it weighed 50lbs. Hope this is enough.

 

[Pete D]

I removed 12 part capped supers at the weekend so I could do my Thymovar treatment. Wasnt sure what to do with them as I was planning to take them through winter on single 14x12 broods.
So last night I stuck all of the frames through the extractor before uncapping them. Got approx 50lb of unripe runny honey which I will feed back to them over the next week or so through the rapid feeders that are in place.
After cleaning through I then uncapped the frames and ran them through again and have about 70lb of honey in buckets for bottling up later.
Seems like a result to me.
After treatment I will let them clean them up for me before putting them away for the winter.
Pete D

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Finished tidying up after yesterday's extracting - supers stored wet in the old dog kennel run packed up in these great (seem almost purpose made) plastic bags I found lying around in work - isn't it amazing that a bale of cannabis resin sems to be about the same size as a national super put the little honey the new colonies have collected in the supers above the crown board for them to clear down.
Then went to feed the ducks - it's that time of year again and the Westley Richards is locked and loaded!

Oh, and on the way to feed the ducks I had a mooch around llangathen churchyard (near Aberglasney) to find some family gravestones saw this one grave in a beautiful setting near the wall of a person who died but a few years ago 'forester, beekeeper and fisherman in the beautiful Towy valley' only 51 when he died but what a wonderful life he must have led. I think that's the apiary my friend mentioned, now going begging (need more bees!)

 

[YorkshireBees]

Cleaned the extractor down for winter and mixed some 2:1 syrup. Off now to start feeding in 1 out apiary.

 

[For want of a better word]

Dished out APIGUARD to my Black bees in morning, and to GNWsBuckspinners in 5 mile away apiary where swarms get taken to.

Returned this eve 5.00 pm to check all OK GNWsBuckspinners zooming around and an amazing drop of varroa.... Black bees... drop of 10 !!!!

 

[Goodwood]

Decided to take boat out Of the river today for the winter
It meant a trip down river to Black Tar to meet a friend with the trailer
As we hit a 100m wide stretch of the cleddau, we had a shock to see a grey squirrel doggy paddling across our bows in the middle of the river on full flood with its tail high behind it.
Amazing.

 

[drex]

I removed 12 part capped supers at the weekend so I could do my Thymovar treatment. Wasnt sure what to do with them as I was planning to take them through winter on single 14x12 broods.
So last night I stuck all of the frames through the extractor before uncapping them. Got approx 50lb of unripe runny honey which I will feed back to them over the next week or so through the rapid feeders that are in place.
After cleaning through I then uncapped the frames and ran them through again and have about 70lb of honey in buckets for bottling up later.
Seems like a result to me.
After treatment I will let them clean them up for me before putting them away for the winter.
Pete D

A lot of my cells were uncapped this year, but on testing with refractometer they came out at about 18% water, so I just uncapped the rest and extracted all in one go. Bees do not usually cap the cells until they are full. They will have evaporated excess water off though, most likely.

Refractometers are cheap on fleabay , and on testing you might find you can have that extra 50lbs yourself, rather than give it back, assuming that your stores levels are OK.

 

[drstitson]

agree - just because uncapped doesn't mean not harvestable.

chinese fleabay refractometers are great. fraction of price of equal quality items here.

and even if some frames are a bit off so long as you harvest then with enough capped....

 

[Pete D]

Thank you I will check it as I picked up a refractometer a couple of weeks back after seeing link on here as to how to use them
cheers
Pete D

 

[Luminos]

Decided to take boat out Of the river today for the winter
It meant a trip down river to Black Tar to meet a friend with the trailer
As we hit a 100m wide stretch of the cleddau, we had a shock to see a grey squirrel doggy paddling across our bows in the middle of the river on full flood with its tail high behind it.
Amazing.

But everybody knows that squirrels swim on their backs...

 

[richardbees]

Weighed my hive today as never hefted before. The hive is a brood and a half with a miller feeder, about half a gallon left in feeder. All in all it weighed 50lbs. Hope this is enough.

Paul

Sorry, imo that's nowhere near enough. a National brood box with 5lb floor should be 55lbs +

richard

 

[youngyoungs]

Lovely day here. Added Apiguard to all hives, plus filled up all the feeders. Resigned to the fact that there's not going to be a harvest for me this year.

 

[nosmoking]

Bees flying and bringing in loads of pollen. Cracking day! Just watched them beeing busy. Varroa treatment doesn't seem to be bothering them. Covered spuds in case of frost, bit chilly last night.

 

[dickndoris]

Yesterday----Took the last but 1 of the supers off and extracted a meagre 20kg :-( Tastes great mind. Gave the empties back for cleaning. Fed all the rest. Making a few crown boards today to feed the rest of what's left. 5 -Q colonies to date! Glad I have an excess of bees!!!! Varroa treatment to commence.

 

[george]

Formic pads on the rest of mine yesterday .
Checked the three at work this morning . 7deg and flying well .

 

[WelshPaul]

Weighed my hive today as never hefted before. The hive is a brood and a half with a miller feeder, about half a gallon left in feeder. All in all it weighed 50lbs. Hope this is enough.

Paul

Sorry, imo that's nowhere near enough. a National brood box with 5lb floor should be 55lbs +

richard

Thanks, well I'll keep giving them food till they stop taking it.

 

[YorkshireBees]

Just nipped out for a long lunch and put the last 4 feeders on the remaining colonies. Checked the ones I put on yesterday in the same apiary and one was already empty! Topped it back up and need to make some more syrup ready to check the other out apiary.

 

[Mart_got_hives]

Removed dry supers from both hives, fed both hives and nuc and started Apilifevar treatment, albeit a little late.

 

[Outlander]

Wish I had not of put winter feed on as yet as they are not taking it down. Feel I should have waited until apigaurd was off. Would not have minded had I of not put fumidil b in. Oh well they may take it before it spoils hopefully.