What did you do in the Apiary today?

[Wingy]

This is what mine were like so just moved the bottom board and replaced on a tilt

https://beekeepingforum.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=15971&stc=1&d=1534829334

 

[manek]

Plonked cappings and residual honey on top of the cover boards and left them to it. Still have two supers on as they're all drawn and being filled. I'll leave whatever they collect now for them.

 

[madasafish]

Nadired 8 Langs and Apiguarded them , 3 nucs and TBH . Younger son helped: started in culottes and jacket, added a veil at my insistence. After Hive #1 veil switched to beekeeping jacket, after #3 and two stings on legs, culottes switched to jeans...

 

[Podilia]

Prepared 5 l of the light syrup for the smallest colonies but they dont' need it. Late buckwheat has been providing a lot of honey. Now hives are full of stores and bees as it is usually in the middle of summer. Buckwheat is very popular food here and several years ago until sunflower expansion this plant gave the main flow in my region. Buckwheat honey is dark, almost black with strong flavor.

Nearby I saw a flying helicopter. Seemed they (farmers-terrorists) were doing something bad such as sprinkling Roundup on sunflower or buckwheat to dry them faster. Some guys wrote it is "safe". I think we all get some "safe" residues of pesticides in food. And it may cause cancer and genetic diseases of babies. Anyway they arre not allowed to do that during daytime and the temperature higher then 15°C. Now it is 30°C every day. Thunderstorms are passing at nights and it feels like in a greenhouse. Usually August is dry here. I'm glad that bees don't need feeding. Don't like this job.

 

[Beefriendly]

Extracted the first few supers of this years heather honey.
What a wonderful aroma to fill the house with; dark amber nectar from the gods.
Hope to clean up at the local country shows this coming week and bank holiday weekend as sole heather honey seller..

 

[Millet]

Checked on a a bought in Queen in a nuc to see if she had been freed from the travel cage that i put in on Saturday which she had and i spotted her so she is alive and well.. i then spotted two Queen cells what the little devils had made and they had larvae in them so i removed them both..
The new Queen is not laying yet so they must have been eggs on one of the two frames of brood i gave them from another colony.. i will have to keep an eye on them till she starts laying.

 

[Hivemaker.]

Had 25 tons of nice western red cedar delivered at 7.30 this morning then catching queens and making up six frame nucs most of the day, most of every day it seems.
Off out to feed some now shortly.

 

[B+.]

Had 25 tons of nice western red cedar delivered at 7.30 this morning

What a wonderful aroma to fill the house with; dark amber nectar from the gods.

What's this, battle of the aromas?

Seriously though, I love the smell of cedar and honey. Not sure which I prefer most.

 

[Millet]

What's this, battle of the aromas?

Seriously though, I love the smell of cedar and honey. Not sure which I prefer most.

Ceder takes some beating..

 

[Curly green fingers]

What's this, battle of the aromas?

Seriously though, I love the smell of cedar and honey. Not sure which I prefer most.

Very quick witted of you . I bet they both smell wonderfull though , another level springs to mind .. things us new beekeepers can dream about.

 

[foghornleghorn]

Extracted the first few supers of this years heather honey.
What a wonderful aroma to fill the house with; dark amber nectar from the gods.
Hope to clean up at the local country shows this coming week and bank holiday weekend as sole heather honey seller..

Does that press hold many combs?

 

[Curly green fingers]

Took my supers of my home apairy site today . Ive applied apivar to my collonys here in-between the brood and half changed the floors allso to full open mesh.feed one collony with 3kg of sugar syrup as there's lots of bee's and not so much stores in the brood .
Bit of info I've two brood/half weights 52kgs and 57 kgs
One 46kg which is being feed .

 

[Beefriendly]

Does that press hold many combs?

At least 2 supers worth.

 

[Millet]

Extracted the first few supers of this years heather honey.
What a wonderful aroma to fill the house with; dark amber nectar from the gods.
Hope to clean up at the local country shows this coming week and bank holiday weekend as sole heather honey seller..

Loveeeerlly sight.

 

[deemann1]

That's a lot of WRC do you import yourself?

 

[simonforeman]

Nothing this morning as it threw it down... dry and overcast this afternoon but all 4 hives bringing in loads of pollen and nectar from somewhere.
Checked the ivy around and may well be out over the weekend, it looks to be staggered so could be a long season.....don't know if thats a good thing or bad thing. Can you give the bees foundation strips in supers to draw comb on an ivy flow???

 

[Erichalfbee]

Can you give the bees foundation strips in supers to draw comb on an ivy flow???

Ivy cut comb?
Interesting.

 

[Ian123]

Ivy cut comb?
Interesting.

Might as well go chew rock lol

 

[Ian123]

Ooops

 

[simonforeman]

Didn't explain that too well sorry. I ment frames of full strips foundation for them to draw not thin strips..

Thought it might be a good way to increase drawn super frames for next year... thoughts