What did you do in the Apiary today?

[Erichalfbee]

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

I think they will rather stick the brood box. They will draw foundation if you feed though but you will have to extract the syrup.

 

[Popparand]

Replaced a solid floor with omf and treated for varroa. Thought it might be a bit of a drama, but they were as quiet as lambs

 

[Barbarian]

Looked at a nuc at home.
The wasps were queuing to get in. No sign of guards.
A look inside showed a mix of wasps and bees. Tried reducing entrance to very small but all the traffic was wasps. Closed the entrance with some perforated zinc and fastened a sticky whitefly strip near the entrance. A later check showed a good haul of wasps on the strip.
I am now thinking of how to modify the entrance to make more defensible when I open it.

 

[Hachi]

Looked at a nuc at home.
The wasps were queuing to get in. No sign of guards.
A look inside showed a mix of wasps and bees. Tried reducing entrance to very small but all the traffic was wasps. Closed the entrance with some perforated zinc and fastened a sticky whitefly strip near the entrance. A later check showed a good haul of wasps on the strip.
I am now thinking of how to modify the entrance to make more defensible when I open it.

Move it away, its your only hope I think.

 

[Swarm]

Clearer boards on five colonies, still another four to be cleared before Winter preps start. Looking forward to this batch of supers as there's some cut comb with snowy white cappings that I'm waiting to try.
Temperament on all colonies was beautiful. I stuck the boards in so will check the varroa drop.

 

[yeogi75]

If you still have bees left in the nuc move the nuc back six inches and put a wasp trap in front oh nuc, I had a hive which was full of wasps and the only thing that saved them was a wasp trap in trout hope all's well

 

[Hivemaker.]

was a wasp trap in trout

What exactly is this yeogi, you used a trout in a wasp trap or did you put a wasp trap inside a trout?

 

[victor meldrew]

What exactly is this yeogi, you used a trout in a wasp trap or did you put a wasp trap inside a trout?

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[The Poot in Somerset]

Checked all three varroa trays after six days since vaping - very few varroa

 

[yeogi75]

waspbane trap in front of hive

 

[Angry_Mob]

This may sound silly but could the AMM bee in the photo be a virgin queen?

 

[Hachi]

Clearer boards on two hives. Reduced my Dbl Brood into single brood and fed. Fed remaining hives ready for winter. Also moved one slow build up hive into a nuc and fed.

 

[JWF]

Put clearers on three hives, and have another two to clear tomorrow before starting winter preps.

Put up two wasp traps for this survey https://www.facebook.com/BigWaspSurvey

 

[Millet]

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This may sound silly but could the AMM bee in the photo be a virgin queen?

Not sure if it is a virgin or not but it is a Queen..

 

[Angry_Mob]

Not sure if it is a virgin or not but it is a Queen..

Whats the give away, the legs? When I seen her I thougt ah the new queen and snapped a few photos but then when I went back and looked at them I had my doubts.

Spotted her yesterday, came home from work about 14:45 and loads of activity around the hive. First nice day here in a while as weather has been cooler and wet. This is the supersedure queen from that hive hopefully returning from a mating flight.

 

[beeno]

Whats the give away, the legs? When I seen her I thougt ah the new queen and snapped a few photos but then when I went back and looked at them I had my doubts.

Spotted her yesterday, came home from work about 14:45 and loads of activity around the hive. First nice day here in a while as weather has been cooler and wet. This is the supersedure queen from that hive hopefully returning from a mating flight.

Honeybee Suite on Intercaste queens - produced from larvae that are too old to produce a proper queen.
"I kept track of her because I was fascinated by her smallness. She was obviously able to mate and function normally because she built up the hive for about three months before the colony superseded her. In a way, she demonstrated nature over nurture—she was small because she was nurtured too late to become a normal queen, but her genetics were fine because she laid the egg that became the queen that superseded her. The colony ultimately thrived and lives on today."
Big thorax, reddish legs, but very small length to abdomen. If she is already a supersedure queen? This late in the season you may have better alternatives?

 

[Podilia]

Not a queen but a female, I guess. I met this creature yesterday. Nor rare but rather unusual guest. Very difficult to notice it among the grass. Just a few stems of grass and she is invisible.

 

[Finman]

Not sure if it is a virgin or not but it is a Queen..

Laying queens do not visit outside.

 

[Hachi]

Checked the supers above the clearer boards. Still full of bee's and got wet thro in the process, oh well. Repeat again tomorrow.

 

[Millet]

Laying queens do not visit outside.

So how does the Queen in a swarm get to the new location...is it some kind of magic trick...