What did you do in the Apiary today?

[VEG]

Had the all clear from the bee inspector all healthy colonies

 

[BeeJayBee]

Had the all clear from the bee inspector all healthy colonies

Hooray!

 

[user 6228]

Had the all clear from the bee inspector all healthy colonies

its a good feeling...
we had two of our colonies checked out in cambridgeshire... apparently they are very suspicious of hampshire bees...

 

[Cazza]

Never seen this before but then again, never done it before.

Just removed a cleaned super which, when extracting, instead of using my usual uncapping knife, I ran a fork over some of the cappings. On inspection today these have been resealed but are empty. Why?
Cazza

 

[busybee53]

Went and did my basic assessment. I was well aware of what went wrong. I managed to crush a couple of bees and the assessor got stung. He said I did very well. Heaven only knows what the rest of the candidates did.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Did a quick check of my newly introduced queens (queen relesed by workers towards the end of last week - The nuc at Garn cottage has eggs and larvae, didn't mess around looking for the queen: the home nuc is calm and placid, no larvae (bit shaded to look for eggs and I didn't want to hang around) didn't look for queen but polished cells so fingers crossed. The hive I replaced the queen in has no larvae but new queen seen wandering around the frame so I'm hoping with these two they'll both get revved up in the next few days.
Another hive with a queen earmarked for replacement seems to have gone off lay - no fresh brood, most frames now emerged although i did see the queen - maybe last month's cold weather upset her - i think she's for the freezer in a week or two.
The two nucs with QC's due to emerge any time seem busy enough so I just let them to it and the Cardigan mob seemed to have taken back down most of the stores they'd collected but they seem to be working overtime now to replace it.
The Garn cottage hive is filling up the super nicely so should do well in the next few weeks.

 

[Polyanwood]

Ran a virgin into a queenless nuc and sighed a few times... the supers are a lot lighter.

 

[abi-e]

Inspected my monster hive - somehow ended up to be double brood and a half with 3 supers on!! Queen has finally moved to lay in the second BB which was added as a botched Bailey change. Added porter bee escapes to remove the now cleaned top super. Hoping (fingers crossed to get them to a more manageable size in the very near future as the hive is currently as tall as I am and at the very limit of what I can physically lift.

 

[madasafish]

Had friends round who wanted to start beekeeping.

Opened a well behaved 12 frame TBH nuc and showed them well behaved bees in action . They actually saw the queen . No veils, no gloves no gear of any sort. Smoker lit but never used. Lovely new white comb.

I wish every inspection was as enjoyable and easy!

 

[Margaret Elisabeth]

Inspected Hive and new colony New colony establishing with brood and comb drawn and queen wandering about looking over the apartments.
Main hive devoid of brood girls eating the stores but building comb and bringing in pollen.
but where is my queen I have not seen her since last week when she flew off with her bridesmaids. Sob. Sob.

 

[richardbees]

Had the all clear from the bee inspector all healthy colonies
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Craig.

pleased for you C...but any specific reason for the inspection?

 

[VEG]

Had the all clear from the bee inspector all healthy colonies
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Craig.

pleased for you C...but any specific reason for the inspection?

Yes got EFB in my area, well its been around my area for last 5 years same chap as well. I keep a very close eye on mine. I tend to get a visit every year.

 

[richardbees]

thought that was probably the cause, as same here last year for me but the identity of the infected colony was kept secret.....it's still nice to have a once over by a Pro

 

[Queens59]

I had a 3k EFB heads up a couple of days ago - but unlikely to be inspected. Not seen an inspector since my first year...

 

[Summerslease]

I saved a nestbox colony of tree bumble bees by relocating from a garden to a wood. Made me feel good.

 

[Cazza]

Really getting in to this early morning inspecting lark.
Checked bought in queen. She is fantastic.
Checked a/s new queen. Laying well but bees feisty. One to keep an eye on.
Cazza

 

[Ely]

Went to seperate a reunite. Commercial on bottom, 14x12 on top. A super on top. Bees didn't go up. Just stayed in the bottom and filled 14x12 with honey. To much heavy lifting. When I restart beekeeping I'm using all standard deeps for brood and super. That way I could have took the box off for extracting rather than figure some way for the bees to rob the honey out of the 14x12 into super frames to be extracted. My extracter doesn't take 14x12 frames.

 

[user 6228]

now 9 out 11 laying... best leave the last two for the beekeeper to inspect

 

[user 6228]

the other two are still waiting to go pollen going in...

 

[VEG]

too hot to do anything apart from a glass of cold wine