Wow, Super Bee's!

[MrB]

my new bee's from Hivemaker are not expanding, they are EXPLODING!! (Brought them back as a 5 frame nuc 2 weeks ago)
opened them up today, seen HM strutting her stuff, Brood of varying ages on 7 to 8 frames!! only 1 frame to be drawn out.
I have put Q/E on and a super and a little fondant on top.
They will have soon caught up with colony 1.

 

[winmag270]

my new bee's from Hivemaker are not expanding, they are EXPLODING!! (Brought them back as a 5 frame nuc 2 weeks ago)
opened them up today, seen HM strutting her stuff, Brood of varying ages on 7 to 8 frames!! only 1 frame to be drawn out.
I have put Q/E on and a super and a little fondant on top.
They will have soon caught up with colony 1.

mind if i ask why you've done this?

 

[MrB]

mind if i ask why you've done this?

i was going to put a little 1:1 syrup on as the last couple of days have not been so good but the feeder i was using has been leeking and i am not going to be able to get in them again for a while.

 

[winmag270]

mine have been bringing in plenty of nectar for over a week now and are starting to fill supers, so I was surprised that you were feeding yours, that's why i asked......

are there forage crops such as dandelion or rape fields in bloom yet round your way?

 

[MrB]

dandelion been out about a week and rape just flowering.
but both my colonys had foundation to draw out in the supers, only 1 drawn comb on each hive, 1st colony has nearly drawn the super out but the new one has that to do, hence the small feed

 

[Friar Tuck]

I have bees from Hivemaker, Prolific is not the word, got a Nuc from him last year now i have 3 hives, took honey in the first year, over wintered well. super bees indeed, they are also very well bee haved

 

[MrB]

I have bees from Hivemaker, Prolific is not the word, got a Nuc from him last year now i have 3 hives, took honey in the first year, over wintered well. super bees indeed, they are also very well bee haved

Wow!, and yes extreamly docile, they hardly bother when i opened them up!

i thought my 1st lot of local bee's were calm, but these are something else!!

 

[MrB]

my new bee's from Hivemaker are not expanding, they are EXPLODING!! (Brought them back as a 5 frame nuc 2 weeks ago)
opened them up today, seen HM strutting her stuff, Brood of varying ages on 7 to 8 frames!! only 1 frame to be drawn out.
I have put Q/E on and a super and a little fondant on top.
They will have soon caught up with colony 1.

These are now on double brood!

 

[wightbees]

I put a second box on last week ,i can't wait to have a look to see how far they have got with it tomorrow.These are also from HM about 3 wks ago.They expand very Quick

 

[drstitson]

AFAIK you don't feed with supers on.

 

[MrB]

AFAIK you don't feed with supers on.

Tell the bees that.
they had drawn the supers in no time!

 

[Heather]

Yes, but the bees would have drawn anyway-= you do not feed when you put a super on...no need to tell the bees.
10 frames of brood... super on without QE for 3 days then whack a QE between and let them go for it.

 

[MrB]

you do not feed when you put a super on...

could you please give me the reason why this is a no no?

Thanks

 

[Cazza]

could you please give me the reason why this is a no no?

Thanks

If you feed syrup, this will be stored in the super.Then your honey will contain your sugar syrup which you then cannot sell. You could consume it yourself but who wants sugar honey?

Cazza

 

[kazmcc]

Erm, Mr Hivemaker.....can I have some of your bees please? LOL. Our lovely green Madge has been replaced by the bees with this terrible mother. Her children are so badly behaved, no manners. I am pushing for a requeen. Mentor hasn't decided yet. Takes a bit of the fun out of beekeeping tbh. She's laying well, bees are filling the super like no tomorrow, but these are school bees, they need to behave.

 

[MrB]

If you feed syrup, this will be stored in the super.Then your honey will contain your sugar syrup which you then cannot sell. You could consume it yourself but who wants sugar honey?

Cazza

if the supers had been drawn then yes i agree, but i am talking about foundation that has not been drawn.

 

[Tom Bick]

Erm, Mr Hivemaker.....can I have some of your bees please? LOL. Our lovely green Madge has been replaced by the bees with this terrible mother. Her children are so badly behaved, no manners. I am pushing for a requeen. Mentor hasn't decided yet. Takes a bit of the fun out of beekeeping tbh. She's laying well, bees are filling the super like no tomorrow, but these are school bees, they need to behave.

You are right the one thing you want above everything in a school environment is gentle calm bees even if it requires you spend the money and re queen and dont running the risk of random mating of virgin queens.

I don’t want to alarm you but what seems a slightly more tetchy hive today can become an aggressive hive later in the year.

You are right to be thinking about this now.

 

[fredbloggs]

Thats torn it?

He's going to charge double now????

 

[kazmcc]

He's going to charge double now????

Ha ha. Kerching!

 

[drstitson]

"if the supers had been drawn then yes i agree, but i am talking about foundation that has not been drawn"

bees start to store honey as soon as suitable cells are ready NOT when you have 9-10 fully drawn out empty combs. so you will still get sugar adulterated honey.