Thursday 7th august 2014.
After brunch with Wil who is full of stories of working at STVV, i removed 7 of the 9 feeders; all empty. The two with a last drop in are 1 and 3.
Api life var strips added to all but 2, which is a Yellow daughter, so hopefully doesn't need it.
Added a lift to the mini plus Yellow Queen, still going strong, i'm going to try the in frame feeder this time.
All hives have young brood; the biggest is by far 4, the swarmy red queen, i gave them a second lift because there were a lot of bees outside the other night.
The two kielers were empty, apparently ran out of food; the queen cell in micro C had been opened or been stripped, there were still bees apparently looking after another queen cell, so i gave them some food.
Note for future; the kielers need to be kept fed.
Thursday, August 07, 2014
Sunday, August 03, 2014
25th to 29th July; Honey and feeding.
Friday 25th put on three bee filters on hives 2, 3 and 9.
Three lifts reduced to two with air pressure to blow off the stragglers and off to Oma' to spin on Sunday 27th. Also put bee filters on the second set of two hives, 4 and 10 and the one at Oma's, 11, which was doing quite well with its new unmarked queen. I only have three bee filters.
First round of spinning generated about 10kgs.
Monday evening clipped no 3 hive with the tractor and mower and upset a bunch of bees, one of which stung me on the lower lip;
Tuesday 29th, after finishing two days of sewer repairs, took off the (heavy) honey lifts from 4 and 10, and installed feeders on all but 5 which is empty. most hives got 14kgs.
Had to combine no 8 and large wooden super, because 8 had not kept its Q. Used the water spray method and removed the Wooden hive.
On arriving at Oma's at 2100, i put my suit back on but forgot to put the hood up; starting to remove the honey lift produced a wave of angry bees, this time stinging above my eye, my hand and back of my neck.
Not much Overboelare honey, 4 kgs? but lots more from 4 & 10, where there were 5 fully double side capped frames of honey. Total about 20kgs so 30kg in total.
Seems to be a Qcell in Micro C; we'll see.
Three lifts reduced to two with air pressure to blow off the stragglers and off to Oma' to spin on Sunday 27th. Also put bee filters on the second set of two hives, 4 and 10 and the one at Oma's, 11, which was doing quite well with its new unmarked queen. I only have three bee filters.
First round of spinning generated about 10kgs.
Monday evening clipped no 3 hive with the tractor and mower and upset a bunch of bees, one of which stung me on the lower lip;
Tuesday 29th, after finishing two days of sewer repairs, took off the (heavy) honey lifts from 4 and 10, and installed feeders on all but 5 which is empty. most hives got 14kgs.
Had to combine no 8 and large wooden super, because 8 had not kept its Q. Used the water spray method and removed the Wooden hive.
On arriving at Oma's at 2100, i put my suit back on but forgot to put the hood up; starting to remove the honey lift produced a wave of angry bees, this time stinging above my eye, my hand and back of my neck.
Not much Overboelare honey, 4 kgs? but lots more from 4 & 10, where there were 5 fully double side capped frames of honey. Total about 20kgs so 30kg in total.
Seems to be a Qcell in Micro C; we'll see.
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