Where did Spring go to?

[enrico]

"Complete white out"

The usual total exaggeration? A frost and some fog is nothing like a complete "white out". Why do people exagerate and hype things? It is only half way through February. Let's get real here!

Humbug, you are always moaning about others moaning!

 

[eddyh]

14c here today,and 17c tomorrow.bee's bringing in loads of pollen.Bring it on.

 

[Tremyfro]

"Complete white out"

The usual total exaggeration? A frost and some fog is nothing like a complete "white out". Why do people exagerate and hype things? It is only half way through February. Let's get real here!

Today is much clearer.....we can see the fences and a tree in the hedge. Yesterday couldn't see beyond the picket fence. I could hear the horses galloping about because they could hear the hunt...but it was a muffled sound...eerie.
Of course...as usual you will have to stand on your head to see the photo...ha ha

 

[Finman]

Humbug, you are always moaning about others moaning!

Look through you own window and trust your eyes. No need to look from internet.

 

[Tremyfro]

Look through you own window and trust your eyes. No need to look from internet.

Looks like we will have at least another few days of this weather...and we were promised a few nice days...huh! Weather forecasters live on a different planet!
Soaked through again today...I'm getting more wrinkled by the hour!

 

[B+.]

Of course...as usual you will have to stand on your head to see the photo...ha ha

I don't know why your photos always appear upside down Tremyfro but I'm getting dizzy standing on my head to see them!

Crickey...its misty there!

Here's something to make you feel better....the weather was fantastic (for February) here yesterday

 

[Tremyfro]

I don't know why your photos always appear upside down Tremyfro but I'm getting dizzy standing on my head to see them!

Crickey...its misty there!

Here's something to make you feel better....the weather was fantastic (for February) here yesterday

A www...she has a star for a crown!
If you click on the picture...it turns itself the right way up...save your crick in the neck.
Here is something else for you...

 

[B+.]

A www...she has a star for a crown!

Here is something else for you...

You're testing my eyesight now!

You can get different styles of opilath plates for marking queens. In this country we tend to just see the ordinary numbered circles but, in Germany, you can get different shapes for line marking a whole batch of queens (see attached)

 

[Tremyfro]

You're testing my eyesight now!

You can get different styles of opilath plates for marking queens. In this country we tend to just see the ordinary numbered circles but, in Germany, you can get different shapes for line marking a whole batch of queens (see attached)

Well I have been reading about bees in the USA....they have also been trying to find a way of getting bees to groom etc the varroa. This group have discovered a type of bee which bites the ankles off the varroa...but have more recently found some that actually bite the carapace of the varroa. It was a report about these bees. I know it's not new but I thought you might have further info about them?
I'm sure you have a magnifyer...hehe

 

[B+.]

Well I have been reading about bees in the USA....they have also been trying to find a way of getting bees to groom etc the varroa. This group have discovered a type of bee which bites the ankles off the varroa...but have more recently found some that actually bite the carapace of the varroa. It was a report about these bees. I know it's not new but I thought you might have further info about them?

Yes. I have seen damaged carapace on dead varroa many times. Unfortunately, I don't really have the resources to investigate it properly. However, by measuring the growth in the varroa population, I am including this by selecting queens for propagation with minimal population growth.
The problem is that you have to inspect each mite under the microscope and judge whether it was damaged by the activity of bees, falling through the OMF, or by the microscopic life that feeds on the debris on the floor. This is an enormous amount of work.

 

[tonyofarr]

Well we got really soggy moving those hives to day and it looks like wet all day tomorrow too. We still have some more hives to move out of the bottom field - our sheep need the grass - so hopefully at least one of those other apiary offers will pan out. I want to get the hives moved before it turns cold again.