What did you do in the Apiary today?

[DulwichGnome]

Found 7 capped queen cells in a hive, 3 on one frame 4 on another, then found that the queen was still there and laying!! Got her in a cage asap and split the colony three ways and now waiting for some good weather.

Mike.

 

[ultreen1]

Inspected my 5 week old nuc.

A little misleading when it is actually likely an 8 month old nuc?

I love this forum so much, makes me want to post comments daily! Condescending much?

 

[YorkshireBees]

Called at one of the out apiaries on my way home after work just to see if there was much activity. The whole field was buzzing, lots of bee traffic heading in multiple directions!

Finished another batch of frames.

Hoping for decent weather at the weekend!

 

[AnotherNewBee]

Checked on the buzzy little beasties. Warm enough for them to forage, but not for me to open them up. I didn't really want to do that anyway as they'll really only been settling in since Tuesday. As far as I can tell they're settling in nicely and are definitely less grumpy than on Wednesday. No pinging even just a few metres from the hive. Didn't feed them as they're starting to forage.

Less clustered around the entrance and a definite flight path to the big yellow field about 500 metres away. An obvious sense of purpose to their activity.

Next job: Prepare some supers and have at least one ready to go on next week during a full inspection.

 

[MandF]

I love this forum so much, makes me want to post comments daily! Condescending much?

I'll see your condescending, and raise you a pendantic patronising.

Like when someone says there was a heatwave "last April/May", only to be told there wasnt a heatwave last May!

 

[Silly Bee]

What did I do in the apiary today?

Drank tea, and watched the coming and going of the ladies.

Such a nice day here, and they were out enjoying themselves, seemed a shame to disturb them, since I'd looked thro' the hives 6 days ago.

 

[johnmcc]

I did the same this evening, except I had a glass of Hook Norton Gold (Pale Ale for the TTers.) Very pleasant too.

 

[drstitson]

show and tell with a pocket full of virgins (and attendants) for benefit firstly for work colleagues then for the aged parents!

 

[region2]

Bad:
Burnt the frames and bees from three hives with EFB
Good:
Collected a huge swarm from a ground floor door frame - weighed a ton!

R2

 

[TOBY-3652]

got mad //// ordered frames on monday, side bars sent wrong ones. reordered with some wax wednesday. yippee i thaught today opend up side bars right ones but wax wrong i ordered drone unwired, got worker wired. why does nobody listen so off for a ride tomorrow aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

 

[davidchevell]

Went through my garden hive, all well, put a clearing boared on to collect my first honey of the season.

 

[abi-e]

Burnt a super's worth of old brood frames that had been used as brood and a half. Managed to get away with my eyebrows intact although I fear the cherry crop will be smoked!!

 

[betterbee]

queen in grass

noticed clump of bees in front of hive ,found clipped queen in middle of bees ,artifical swarmed hive,?result hopefully(best queen)

 

[carbon]

Topped up the feeders as usual.

 

[protheroe]

checked my queen cells in the nucs,13 out of 14 hatched and the last one still chewing her way out 2 days late

 

[psafloyd]

Two main colonies congested but AS-ed one last week. Have made up a new small nuc from the second and waiting to see what has happened as I may have missed the Q thanks to this awful weather.

Both could be Q- (though I doubt it) but just haven't had enough time to do a thorough check as the weather is a bit changeable and stormy at the mo. Will do thorough search later this week as I have a couple of days off and could do with a bit more practice for my Basic assessment next Saturday in any case.

Capital Bee nuc is now 3/4 filling its national brood box and continues to grow strongly, given the conditions. Resisted feeding these guys and are now covering six frames very heavily and drawing out the last couple of frames of foundation. Very happy in this place, so hope to do a bit more clearing and may move some more bees here in time as a nice spot.

 

[davidchevell]

Just got back from picking up my fourth swarm in two weeks, this is not my bees. Large swarm of good looking bees. Hope the forecast fine weather will calm things down and let these girls get out and live a little.

 

[oldsalthouse]

Been though my hives today and all doing well....most are on there second supers, no OSR around here.

 

[VEG]

tipped out one hive with laying workers and went through the others no swarm cells but they are starting to bring in some nectar.

 

[meidel]

Found the stale virgin queen and introduced a queen cell into a poly nuc this afternoon.