Thanks,
Statistics: Posted by charvey45 — Wed Apr 06, 2016 1:13 pm
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Lots of bearding in the heat and morning activity bring in pollen. Will check them again and see how brood is doing soon.
Statistics: Posted by NOOBEE — Fri Jul 31, 2015 7:25 am
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well today I was surprised to see this. bees like jelly juice
Statistics: Posted by NOOBEE — Tue Jul 21, 2015 8:28 am
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Statistics: Posted by TALLBEE3 — Mon Apr 06, 2015 9:07 pm
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All three survived the winter.
I've been putting off doing an inspection, and decided to do one on Sunday morning (4-5-15). I was not expecting what i found:
Small hive: 4 frames of eggs, larva, and capped brood in the super, none in the deep, but there were lots of bees. This hive should start taking off soon.
Big hive one: As soon as i opened the hive, i found some comb that had been build in the candy board. This made me think they were getting nectar from somewhere. I looked in the super and found 3 full frames of newly capped honey
along with a couple frames of eggs, larva, and brood. The deep below it had 8 frames of eggs, larva, and brood, and one frame of honey next to a frame feeder. This is the first time i have seen brood against the side wall of the hive. The center frames of the bottom deep looked like they had been cleaned, but no eggs yet. I decided to rotate the bottom deep up and put the upper deep on the bottom, added a super, and moved 2 of the full honey frames up to the new super with a frame of undrawn foundation in between them.Big hive 2: Lots of bees, lots of eggs, larva, and brood, and 2 frames of new honey. This hive is slightly behind the other big hive. I rotated the bottom deep up and put the upper deep on the bottom, added a super and moved 1 of the full honey frames up to center.
So, if you have Burdell's from last year that overwintered, and haven't checked them...might want to do so soon. I now need to finish getting equipment ready so that i can continue to add supers and hopefully prevent swarming!!!
Statistics: Posted by matrout76 — Mon Apr 06, 2015 10:55 am
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Have a great Spring!!
Statistics: Posted by chemgreg — Mon Mar 30, 2015 6:34 pm
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Cleaning the supers and getting ready to put them on the hive. Lots of bees with pollen coming home to the hive. I hope it will be a good year.
Where can I find infor about selling honey and candles at the State Faire?
Statistics: Posted by chemgreg — Mon Mar 30, 2015 6:27 pm
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Your idea about transferring the queen is correct. This is the best time of year to do this type of hive moving since the brood nest is small (but growing) and they're on the verge of a flow. Transfer the frame with the queen on it and any frames with brood into the new hive. Mark those frames with a marker on the top so you know which ones to discard in the future. Your new frames will be drawn out with wax when the bees start bringing in nectar. You will have opportunities to remove the old frames in the future. The best time would be this time of year next year. Assuming you put another deep on top of the deep with the old frames--the bees will move up during the winter. Around this time next year all of your bees will most likely be in the upper deep and if your old frames are in the 1st deep then they will be unoccupied and accessible to toss.
John
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