What did you do in the Apiary today?

[taurus]

Made a wasp defence out of a plastic milk bottle - seems to confuse the little beggars

 

[nantmoel]

I put all the frames out of the mating hives into a super on a Poly Nuc, little puff of air freshener, they all seemed happy enough.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Took delivery of a pallet load of honey jars (all boxed) quickly moved them all in from the rain, now having a cup of tea before stowing them away properly.

 

[Tremyfro]

I gave 2 nucs some syrup and a new colony some too...just to keep them going as I noticed they didn't have a lot of stores. All the other colonies have lots of stores ATM.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Been damp, windy cold and miserable here for most of the day - popped up to the home apiary late afternoon to top up the feeder on one of the smaller nucs which is at the far corner but didn't think I'd need a veil as there wouldn't be many bees out in this ' WRONG! busy throngs of bees from every hive still shoveling in the balsam - had to sneak around the long way behind all the hives to give them a feed!!

 

[taurus]

I checked my experiments with wasp baits.

Good old fashioned jam solution - nil points

Commercial bait - 1

Raw bacon - 9

Solution of sugar, salt & vinegar - Armageddon

 

[coatesg]

Made up more syrup to feed and some Hivemaker Thymol potion... More feed going in the rapid feeders tomorrow if it'll stop raining (though a bit of ivy now coming in too).

 

[Obee1]

I moved two large colonies from the garden to the field apiary. One colony had become rather arsey and I didn't want to open it up in the garden. Therefore had to transport it complete. One 14 x 12 box, one std brood, QE and super atop. Blinking heavy and unwieldy. Had to use a trolley (and muscles supplied by OH). Also took two smallish nucs over there with my newly mated queens, intending to add some brood to them in a few days. However there were so many wasps there the nucs wouldn't have stood a chance so had to be brought back home.
Meanwhile the rest of my mated queens seem to be laying well now they are in poly nucs. Three went into proper size nucs. The other 5 are being boosted with a frame of brood plus nurse bees every week- seemed easier than making up 5 nucs which would decimate a couple of colonies and going through the introducing a queen faff. I'm hoping to overwinter these queens in their nucs. .

 

[REDWOOD]

Removed supers from two hives yesterday, the rest will be done this weekend

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

i know it's probably the wrong thing to do, but I added a super today. Reason, I have been feeding syrup and BB looks full of syrup with little space for the queen to lay, we do after all still have ivy to go and possible still 4 weeks of gathering. Also found an open queen cell, which I destroyed, even though late could they still be thinking of swarming. Hive is an AS I did on 21st June.

Do you have a mentor? Lot going on there.


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[Etton]

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Yep, been on the courses, local bee inspector made a helpful call for a couple of hours recently so great support all round, but still make mistakes! Forum is a big help too.
Plan to start Apiguard treatment today, probably a bit late as takes 6 weeks and told shouldnt feed during this time. Also plan to move two supers below brood boxes for feed during winter.

 

[coatesg]

Topped up with thymolated syrup. Quite busy girls this morning (probably red up with being cooped up yesterday with the rain) - ivy starting to open up all round from looks.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Plan to start Apiguard treatment today, probably a bit late as takes 6 weeks and told shouldnt feed during this time. Also plan to move two supers below brood boxes for feed during winter.

why two supers under? if they're empty, none. if full, one is ample and you don't need to feed.
If needs be, you can feed with Apiguard on.

 

[REDWOOD]

Removed the last supers, too buggered to extract tonight so it will have to wait until next week

 

[Brigsy]

Thought I would try a Robo block so popped that in last night. Put it on the anti robbing setting. Bit of a traffic jam but they sorted themselves out.

Put my last bit of honey into some jars from my newest colony that I crush and strained yesterday. Very dark honey indeed.

 

[Gilberdyke John]

Yep, been on the courses, local bee inspector made a helpful call for a couple of hours recently so great support all round, but still make mistakes! Forum is a big help too.
Plan to start Apiguard treatment today, probably a bit late as takes 6 weeks and told shouldnt feed during this time. Also plan to move two supers below brood boxes for feed during winter.

Put first tray of Apiguard on. Two weeks later second tray. Two weeks after that treatment is normally finished. That's four weeks
You can feed but some colonies are reluctant to take it down. It's also been suggested that bees busy storing food can be distracted from dealing with the Apiguard and it doesn't get spread throughout the hive. A search of the forum may be helpful.

 

[nantmoel]

We had a phone call to day to go and collect a swarm, in all fairness it was a nice size as well.

 

[Millet]

Thought I would try a Robo block so popped that in last night. Put it on the anti robbing setting. Bit of a traffic jam but they sorted themselves out.

Put my last bit of honey into some jars from my newest colony that I crush and strained yesterday. Very dark honey indeed.

What is one of those.

 

[enrico]

Notice that a few people have mentioned dark honey, mine is darker this year than I have ever had, looks like burnt toffee. Taste is fine but just came as a bit of a surprise. I am putting it down to a bumper sycamore harvest.
Aside from that saw a bee collecting pollen from sweet corn plants today. Filling it's bags with the normally air spread pollen.
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[Anduril]

What is one of those.

It's an aluminium entrance block developed by big T