Very odd, the bee swarms around here have shifted from moving into hives exactly around noon for the last few years, to arriving between 3:30pm and 4pm. 🤔 #beekeeping
Te to ale nanosiły… xD
Pierwszy miód z tego sezonu, nazwa kodowa „Klon, mniszek i inne cuda” 25kg! To połowa z tego co zebrałem w całym zeszłym sezonie!!!!11
A pszczelarz patron straszył, że wszystko kwitnie na raz i miodu nie będzie. :D
Do not do this, it is totally irresponsible to suggest this. His bees have starved because he did not feed them, this is his error. Bees easily drown in bowls of sweet liquid and as soon as the weather changes you will be discouraging bees from using flowers and tainting their honey. Lincolnshire beekeeper says public needs to help starving bees - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-68935866.amp#beekeeping
Dwie dodatkowe niedziele w tygodniu to jest to czego było mi trzeba, aby dokończyć żółtą chałupkę. Tak wiem, koszmarnie długo to trwało. Cóż… tak bywa na budowach, że się stawianie chałupy przeciąga. ;-)
I nie, nie zabrakło mi farby. Wiosną przy sprzątaniu doszedłem do wniosku, że najwygodniej byłoby mieć wszystkie dennice w jednym kolorze, bo wtedy można je podmieniać nie wprowadzając zamieszania. Także od teraz dennice będą zielone.
Interesting beekeeping discovery yesterday. Used the new battery-powered weed whacker to trim around beehives, and got ZERO reaction to the weed whacking and equipment. I'm curious if this is because they are most sensitive to the smell of gasoline powered weed whackers, or the noise level/vibration of the battery powered trimmers is below what would trigger a reaction. (they are known for hating people weed whacking around their hives). #beekeeping
Nach fast 10 Jahren Pause habe ich wieder Bienen. Heute hat sich bei uns ein Schwarm gesammelt und ich habe das mal als Zeichen gedeutet, die Imkerausrüstung aus dem Keller zu holen 🐝 #bienen#bienenschwarm#imkerei#honig#beekeeping#bees#honey#beeswarm
How it started How its going
Our first Autumn with a beehive. Lots of learning has culminated in our first honey harvest. The bees have done their thing despite our bumbling efforts. Up next: learning to make mead! #FairyBootFarm#Beekeeping#FlowHive
Beekeeper's advice for the day: It's springtime, which is swarming season. If you do not want to have to deal with bees in your walls, make sure to either seal up or put mesh over any exterior hole in your house (especially your eaves and siding), particularly holes that are about penny to thumbtack sized. #beekeeping#advice
The video of bee activity post was interrupted by a lot of bee activity so I made a new video.
Saw lots of pollen going in, or trying to with the traffic jam there. I looked at the feeder earlier and they have hardly touched it today so I guess they have the hive back in order now after 6 days.
Umówił się ze mną pan z inspekcji weterynaryjnej na kontrolę pcioów gdyż zgnilec amerykański. Chciał na dziś, powiedziałem, że zimno i może za tydzień? Spoko.
Mój pszczelarz patron:
Matko czego oni od Ciebie chcą, nudzi im się chyba. Nie martw się on tylko szybko 2 ramki zobaczy, próbki pobierze. :D
Ja:
Tej to fajnie, może ktoś robi jakiś science, może coś się z takich rzeczy kiedyś urodzi, no wiesz jak nie wiesz? :D
So, my bees swarmed today. That was an adventure. My friend and I were able to retrieve the swarm from pretty high up in a tree on my property. Bees will swarm when a hive decides to split, usually because the space they're living in is getting too cramped for the number of bees that the local resources can support. In this case it's because we hadn't added additional boxes to expand the space for the hive soon enough, oops.
Anyone wondering what wax worms look like (as they start working into an empty hive), here's a good photo. Your easiest fix -- especially in a small hive--is to freeze the frames, which kills all the eggs and larvae, and hope bees move in quickly! A large, healthy hive will keep out wax moths. #beekeeping#tips#beekeepingtips#waxmoths https://m.ai6yr.org/@natesiggard/112294809202487916
Wax moths have a valuable role, I believe, in the ecosystem -- especially in the wild. They favor old, dark wax (which bees HATE), and consume it to for nutrition. In hives in trees, they will eat away all the old crappy wax and some wood (for good measure), and then they die off when they run out of old wax. That leaves a VERY CLEAN and pristine cavern that is perfect for bees. The bees move back in and the cycle starts again. (this process, however, is very destructive for beekeepers, as they destroy frames, foundation, and even boxes). #beekeeping#waxmoths#tips
While reviewing a couple of hours of video from today, I did see some bees leave and the same or others come back. Maybe the new sign above the entrance is helping or it's just nurse bees assigned to foraging so they don't have a clue where home is and actually pay attention to the entrance.
Without many (any?) foragers the bees in the upper split seem thirsty. It's surprising how fast they all show up once one of them finds water on the landing board. I had been dribbling some on there but found a little cap that fit.
I made a little landing board for the double screened divider. Then after reviewing an hour of video where many bees left with whatever they were carrying to clean the hive, only one bee returned.. so I made a little robbing screen as an obstacle so maybe they'd re-orientate, or just not fly off with the dead drones. That seems to have worked.
They seem to be getting rid of drones, which is good because that's more room for worker brood.