[riseholmebees] Re: FW: Notts BKA June newsletter
- From: "Ben Crabb" <bcrabb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <riseholmebees@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 08:34:32 +0100
Steve,
Highly suggest making a gallon of sugar syrup up and sticking it on, a
lot of colonies have declined rapidly over the past few weeks due to the
fluctuations in weather. I have done the same with mine last week as two
of the colonies had pretty much halved and most nectar which had been
broughtin had been used up. The sugar syrup seems to have helped and
they are building up nicely again.
Ben
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From: riseholmebees-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:riseholmebees-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave Leighton
Sent: 17 May 2010 20:45
To: riseholmebees@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [riseholmebees] Re: FW: Notts BKA June newsletter
Steve
Looks like you are you are on a steep learning curve about bees. Take
heart, after rather smugly announcing that both our colony's had made it
through winter, Nosema, chalk brood and no queen/laying worker has hit
one of our hives. It is all but a write off despite our best efforts.
The other hive is booming with 20+ queen cells built every week with at
least half with occupants. On the honey front, we have a rape field
about 10 doors down from us, so Nectar and Pollen are flooding in.
Getting it out might be another matter.
Regards
Dave aaaaaand Jane
From: riseholmebees-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:riseholmebees-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Pickard
Sent: 17 May 2010 09:07
To: Riseholme Bees
Subject: [riseholmebees] FW: Notts BKA June newsletter
Notts newsletter attached.
Had a bit of a setback in my solitary hive this weekend - the regular
inspection showed no brood cells apart form a couple of drones. I'd not
seen eggs in the 6 weeks or so I've had the colony, but had seen larvae,
and up to this weekend brood, as well as having spotted the queen a few
weeks back so I'd assumed that all was well. Big mistake!
Having talked it through with Neil Pont (who I got the colony from), it
does indeed seem that they have swarmed, although there is still a
sizeable population - or at the very least the queen is dead. Going to
leave it for a week or so in the off chance that a new queen has been
raised (and that I didn't successfully wipe out all queen cells in an
earlier attempt to stop the swarm) and mated, but if that doesn't
happen, Neil has very kindly offered to come down and introduce a new
queen. Fingers crossed, because at the moment I still have a healthy
bunch of even tempered bees, would hate to lose them so early in my
beekeeping career! Hoping to get a second colony on the go soon.
Hope yours all faring well - any other stories?
Steve
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