Ceph
New Bee
- Joined
- Oct 16, 2010
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- Location
- London uk
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 2
Hi, I have two hives; one doing very well which I started in June (took no honey and have built up for next year) the second is a wild colony I took from a friends garden on comb in a honeysuckle hedge.
I gained this colony in approximately late August.
The comb was structured through a trellis and lots of branches etc, around the size of a football with six sheets of comb.
Two sheets were empty of stores and four I could not see as they where all fixed together.
I proceeded to attempt to build frames with the sections of comb in a nuc box and have subsequentley transferred them to a new hive.
They have sealed four frames together preventing me from veiwing their brood or stores and they have one frame I can veiw which they have full of stores on but only around 5-10% capped.
Its getting quite cold now and am concerned that if I keep giving them syrup they will not be able to evaporate the water and gain enough stores for winter, also understand it can fermet with too much water content.
I query would be what is the best scenario and method to feed a potentially weak colony so it does not starve over winter when the weather is getting cold?
If you have any other observations I would apprecaite it.
Thank you.
I gained this colony in approximately late August.
The comb was structured through a trellis and lots of branches etc, around the size of a football with six sheets of comb.
Two sheets were empty of stores and four I could not see as they where all fixed together.
I proceeded to attempt to build frames with the sections of comb in a nuc box and have subsequentley transferred them to a new hive.
They have sealed four frames together preventing me from veiwing their brood or stores and they have one frame I can veiw which they have full of stores on but only around 5-10% capped.
Its getting quite cold now and am concerned that if I keep giving them syrup they will not be able to evaporate the water and gain enough stores for winter, also understand it can fermet with too much water content.
I query would be what is the best scenario and method to feed a potentially weak colony so it does not starve over winter when the weather is getting cold?
If you have any other observations I would apprecaite it.
Thank you.