What did you do in the Apiary today?

[The Poot]

Second round of vaping done today, bright orange,yellow and creamy white pollen going into the hives i vaped.
Moving colony’s over the next few days.
Traveled upto north Shropshire yesterday to inspect a friends hives.

Second round for me today too. Also more feeding of the light colonies.

 

[philipm]

Bit of a boomarang year this year last inspection the hives were very low on stores today they were pretty full.plenty of ivy in flower with us but they seem to be all over the weeds growing in my garden dead nettle I think. Worst inspection of the year all the hives were really stroppy lucky I didnt need to do a full inspection.

 

[Moobee]

Yes .. Ivy here is the same - a few tight buds. Very little in blossom this week of any note around me - they are flying and some pollen coming in but not much nectar by the look of the landing board,

Ditto. All hives and nucs are light on stores so they all had a good feed of heavy syrup this week. The only heavy hive is a double brood with the top box weighing a ton!

 

[Curly green finger's]

Second round for me today too. Also more feeding of the light colonies.

No feeding for me luckily par a few mini nucs - by the weight of the colony’s over this week from the ivy flow which in most places is in full swing.
Me and the guys have just been out to heft some nucs and in three days they have put on considerable weight surprising really.
I don’t have any doubles this year but my mates top boxes were heavy to lift.
I hope the ivy kicks in a bit for you

 

[The Poot]

Ditto. All hives and nucs are light on stores so they all had a good feed of heavy syrup this week. The only heavy hive is a double brood with the top box weighing a ton!

I have one like that - out of five….
They are all double brood, the heavy one never got the hang of storing honey in the supers!

 

[Nannysbees]

No, Paul Davies, lives not too far from me, his kids went to school with my sister's kids, his missus works in the media industry so knows people I knew when I was acting, he was a teacher for some time then did a bit of backpacking and now has a smallholding with a small vineyard!

That's an interesting bit, when you were acting?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

That's an interesting bit, when you were acting?

early eighties to about 1988

 

[Nannysbees]

Pollen piling in but forecast looks like rain for most of this week

early eighties to about 1988

What programmes or theatre?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

What programmes or theatre?

theatre mostly - Brecht's caucasian chalk circle in the Sherman in 1983, touring War and peace with Cwmni Theatr yr Urdd, Toby Belch in Twelfth night, I played the narrator in a Welsh version of Thornton Wilder's 'our town' to launch the Urdd Drama festival in 1987 I think, The Winslow boy and others are just a blur now - that was a diffferent life.

 

[ericbeaumont]

Crondall. Miles from you.

Thanks; other side of Farnham.

 

[gregior]

Watched a bit of this today.

 

[Garry R]

Another 5kg of syrup (5kg sugar) given to the last light colony and that should be it. Roll on the ivy as a great top up. Wasps seem to have subsided a bit thank goodness, A bit more wax melted and filtered out in the solar extractor. Plenty now for next year's foundation.

 

[Penninetrader]

no, I gave up years ago, apart from factual TV interviews on local affairs, history - and bees of course.
I suppose I had a kind of 'road to Damascus' moment years ago when Michael Croft offered me the part of 'Owain Glendower' in a NYT production of Henry IV in London way back when and I decided to take another path.
After the film, there was still a chance (although because of the film I missed my chance of competing against Bryn Terfel for the stage in the National Eisteddfod) but even with the backing of Hywel Bennet and His brother Alun Lewis, in those days the dreaded equity card closed shop system ruled and I decided I didn't want to have to fight for a living, I did a few things locally and competed in a few things but the job offer in Customs came along and the move to Bristol prompted me to give it all in.
Although a few years ago our training branch roped me in as a role player to put our new recruits through their paces! Like a remake of the pirates of Penzance then :]

 

[Penninetrader]

no, I gave up years ago, apart from factual TV interviews on local affairs, history - and bees of course.
I suppose I had a kind of 'road to Damascus' moment years ago when Michael Croft offered me the part of 'Owain Glendower' in a NYT production of Henry IV in London way back when and I decided to take another path.
After the film, there was still a chance (although because of the film I missed my chance of competing against Bryn Terfel for the stage in the National Eisteddfod) but even with the backing of Hywel Bennet and His brother Alun Lewis, in those days the dreaded equity card closed shop system ruled and I decided I didn't want to have to fight for a living, I did a few things locally and competed in a few things but the job offer in Customs came along and the move to Bristol prompted me to give it all in.
Although a few years ago our training branch roped me in as a role player to put our new recruits through their paces!

Like a remake of the Pirates of Penzance . Bristol is a bit of a hotbed of TV productions is it not ? So it is to BEE or not to BEE for thee, apologies I could not resist.

 

[Penninetrader]

 

[Nannysbees]

theatre mostly - Brecht's caucasian chalk circle in the Sherman in 1983, touring War and peace with Cwmni Theatr yr Urdd, Toby Belch in Twelfth night, I played the narrator in a Welsh version of Thornton Wilder's 'our town' to launch the Urdd Drama festival in 1987 I think, The Winslow boy and others are just a blur now - that was a diffferent life.

Man of many talents. Thank you for sharing that, fascinating

 

[Curly green finger's]

Put two mini nucs into dummied down 6 frame nucs and gave them a decent feed - I might do the other 4 as there are so many bees in them they are hanging out the front at night time.
I’ve got one single brood superseding with two capped cells and existing queen still laying well, her brood pattern looks ok but they obviously think there’s something wrong with her.
Mite drops on most colony’s are minimal even after there second vape.

Out of interest on a 2021 colony that has never been treated i vaped them yesterday and mite count was 45/24hrs

 

[Erichalfbee]

Out of interest on a 2021 colony that has never been treated i vaped them yesterday and mite count was 45/24hrs

Is there any brood ?

 

[Curly green finger's]

Is there any brood ?

Yes two central frames have capped brood both sides 5 others with bias. And the rest are honey and pollen

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

they'll all be crammed in the brood then