Dear friends,
This is on the window of one of my hIves.
In my haste to hive them last year as a wild storm was about to break, I
omitted putting in top bars . They rapidly went on to fill the hive with
wonderful wild comb and they have pulled through so far. Does this look
like Nosema on the windows?
No streaks. Advice appreciated as always.
Eric
On 12-02-2018 12:06, Paul Honigmann wrote:
The first OxNatBees meeting of the year will be at the Marsh Harrier pub [1]
in Cowley, Oxford on Saturday, March 10th.
Start time: 1PM. The pub serves food.
The following discussion topics have been suggested but of course, all
questions are welcome:
* winter survival
* immediate tasks (remove mouseguards, how to check colony health etc)
* what we are planning / preparing this year
* how to repair hives with bees in residence
* the imminent swarm season
The pub is within walking distance of Jack's top bar hives and if weather
permits, at the end of the meeting we will go and look at them. One hive has
an emergency rescue colony in it which Jack does not expect to survive: if it
has died we will open it up and show how to do a post mortem on it.
We will be joined by someone who wishes to promote the Bee.Watch app [2],
they are based in south Oxfordshire and after having several hive losses from
spray poisoning they have written the app and are promoting it to various bee
groups.
Paul
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