What did you do in the Apiary today?

[Luminos]

Checked the syrup on the hives, and saw an Asian hornet fly onto one landing-board and grab a bee - what a nerve!
Squashed it. Unfortunately the bee got squashed too, but I expect it was done for anyway.

 

[jd101k2000]

Strapped down both hives, ready for the seasonal weather. Expecting the worst, hoping for the best.

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

Checked the syrup on the hives, and saw an Asian hornet fly onto one landing-board and grab a bee - what a nerve!
Squashed it. Unfortunately the bee got squashed too, but I expect it was done for anyway.

Wasps still doing that big-time around here.

I finally worked out the perfect material for floats under the cups of fast feeders: brace comb! They built a bunch in the last week and are drawing comb as well so this idea that they won't draw after August looks a bit suspect to me.

Picked up a couple of stings this weekend: girls are in less of a mood for company as the year wears on, but I'm done now. 2kg of sugar in 2:1, feeder off and that's it.

 

[Chris Luck]

Still having to feed a few colonies and had a couple of visitors today.

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and what I think maybe Dexia rustica

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Bless.

Chris

 

[For want of a better word]

Threatened them all with MAQS if they did not produce at least 180 lbs per colony each next season... got told to buzz off !!

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Woke up this morning to a damp but sunny day. decided to check the feed on two of the hives which are still guzzling syrup (and have the smallest feeders - typical!) still the odd wasp mooching around. Then went to Tilbury crossing London it wouldn't have been so bad even with the CTC train cancellations if it wasn't for the misinformation by the rail company information desks which meant I ended up doing the lat two legs of my journey during rush hour!!!

 

[drstitson]

Had a close encounter with an apiary visitor.
She has been hanging around alone for a couple of weeks. happy to come to me for food. Presume rest of her family have been shot.

 

[pargyle]

Had a close encounter with an apiary visitor.
She has been hanging around alone for a couple of weeks. happy to come to me for food. Presume rest of her family have been shot.

Is that a wild boar in daylight ? Incredible - I know they are spreading across the country very rapidly but I didn't think they were as brave as that ? Are you feeding her ?

 

[drstitson]

We've had upto 16 visiting regularly just after dusk (with an occasional daytime stampede through the woods) but she's been around alone in daylight on and off for last week or two.

 

[Chris Luck]

Is that a wild boar in daylight ? Incredible - I know they are spreading across the country very rapidly but I didn't think they were as brave as that ? Are you feeding her ?

I suspect that may not be UK and yes, they do wander about in daylight at this time of year especially on dull days, plenty of them here - had some young ones running through the other day.

Chris

 

[pargyle]

We've had upto 16 visiting regularly just after dusk (with an occasional daytime stampede through the woods) but she's been around alone in daylight on and off for last week or two.

I think it's great to see them surviving and thriving in the wild without any interference from us ... no doubt there'll be people around who say they are a nuisance, riddled with disease and a whole varety of reasons why they should be culled ...

 

[Pete D]

I took 2 hives to my brothers apiary about 10 days ago where there is an abundance of Ivy, looked in the supers and one was half full, the other nearly full and mostly capped. I moved the half full super complete with bees to the busier stronger hive with the full super,put in under the near full one, with any luck I will get 2 supers of Ivy honey off in a few days...... just need to extract it then :

Put the clearers on these on Sunday and whipped them off yesterday and extracted last night. Got 30lb of lovely strong honey but had left it a bit too late as probably another 15lb set in the combs. Anyway learning all the time, it's the first time I have tried to harvest ivy honey. Both hives good for stores, just need to bring them home at the weekend and tuck them up with the rest.

 

[Goran]

I think it's great to see them surviving and thriving in the wild without any interference from us ... no doubt there'll be people around who say they are a nuisance, riddled with disease and a whole varety of reasons why they should be culled ...

Ehh.. At my second apiary they make a terrain like after bombardment, even they dig beneath the hives ( wonder how they didn't some of them turned upside down). So now I have to put a fence around hives, cause I don't want to they disturb the colonies..
But by the all wilderness ( plenty) they come around hives and dig as trenching and preparing for a world war. Several times almost dig my nose in the ground cause of their masterwork, grrr..
I won't do something to harm them, but they are annoying me..

 

[Goran]

Still warm, over 26. Bees not much active, little to be seen at flowers..
From tomorrow is starting to decrease the temperature..
Someone asked how many seams You have in the hives, how to say when they are all over the hive.. Some are comforting and telling they have 7 seams of bees ( at 26celsius, and night temp 12-14), I just don't comment. If they don't realize by themselves, I think cannot explain them either..

 

[BeeJayBee]

Is that a wild boar in daylight ? Incredible - I know they are spreading across the country very rapidly but I didn't think they were as brave as that ?

I saw a Wild Boar sow about 6 weeks ago, not far from Bramshaw.

I think it's great to see them surviving and thriving in the wild without any interference from us ... no doubt there'll be people around who say they are a nuisance, riddled with disease and a whole varety of reasons why they should be culled ...

There will be calls for them to be culled once somebody gets hurt by an adult boar.

 

[Chris Luck]

I saw a Wild Boar sow about 6 weeks ago, not far from Bramshaw.

There will be calls for them to be culled once somebody gets hurt by an adult boar.

The real danger isn't from a boar attacking you - that's close to zero likelihood, they either run away or maybe just stare at you and then run away.

The danger is if you hit one in your car, that's where deaths and serious injuries occur here.

Chris

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I think it's great to see them surviving and thriving in the wild without any interference from us ... no doubt there'll be people around who say they are a nuisance, riddled with disease and a whole varety of reasons why they should be culled ...

I'm sure the old eyeties will ensure their numbers don't get too high - just a matter of steering well clear when old johnny *** is waving a loaded shotgun around!

 

[beenovice]

WOW- Wild Boar! now that would be a road kill worth stopping for. I was in Germany in the summer and passed a guy loading a road kill wild boar onto a special kind of platform fitted to his tow bar. It was a massive thing. It would certainly fill your freezer!

 

[user 6228]

Did he fill out the Wildunfallschein?
normal musst warten bis die polizei oder förster kommt und wildunfall schein ausstellen lassen

Only hit deer not boar, Once in Austria, once in California. It ruins your day.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Read an article in the Field years ago of someone who ran over a deer in the New Forest. He dutifully loaded it into the boot and took it to the nearest police station - he was told 'bring it in and put it in the second cell on the left' - sweating and straining he dragged it into the station and deposited in the specified cell, turned round to the sergeant who stood toe to toe with him and glared deep into his eyes and said 'thanks, the next one's yours - goodnight!'