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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: What did you do in your Apiary/Bee yard today?
« Last post by Bill Murray on Today at 10:30:47 am »I tried to tell her, but sometimes you have to work through it to understand.
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CRAFTING CORNER / Re: Creamed honey advice
« Last post by Bill Murray on Today at 10:27:28 am »So Nigel My assumptions The machine mixes the seed into the honey. and then the creaming takes place in the jar or tub, without the froth because it will still be in the machine. correct?
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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: Swarm Catching
« Last post by Terri Yaki on Today at 10:15:43 am »And so far today, activity is light again. There was a post on NextDoor here recently that someone scored a swarm with a marked queen in it.
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NATURAL & ORGANIC BEEKEEPING METHODS / Re: Help! Best natural feeding options
« Last post by Kathyp on Today at 10:13:35 am »Because we are so wet here, I would dump 5 lbs of dry sugar on the deep side of the inner cover for winter. It served two purposes. 1. It was emergency food and 2. it absorbed moisture. It started out dry and ended up more like a candy board.
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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: What did you do in your Apiary/Bee yard today?
« Last post by Ben Framed on Today at 10:12:27 am »😊
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HONEYBEE REMOVAL / Re: Expensive Issue
« Last post by Bill Murray on Today at 10:03:59 am »Quote
There are also the "special" customers
And these are growing every year.
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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: Swarm Catching
« Last post by Bill Murray on Today at 09:59:41 am »Quote
When I see a monster swarm with a great queen in a tree I failed.
Thank you beesnweeds if everyone understood this statement they would; have stronger hives, make more honey, and have in general helthier hives of bees.
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CRAFTING CORNER / Re: Creamed honey advice
« Last post by Bill Murray on Today at 09:52:38 am »I posted this somewhere else but this looks like the place for it.
I get a froth on the top when I use a mechanical means to mix. personally I love it, but it looks bad in the finished product. No matter how much I scrape there is always more. Is there a way to remove this?
So I just watched the lyson vid. I am assuming the machine itself rectifies this air issue. Correct?
I get a froth on the top when I use a mechanical means to mix. personally I love it, but it looks bad in the finished product. No matter how much I scrape there is always more. Is there a way to remove this?
So I just watched the lyson vid. I am assuming the machine itself rectifies this air issue. Correct?
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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: What did you do in your Apiary/Bee yard today?
« Last post by Bill Murray on Today at 09:44:30 am »So one of Marleys hive went queenless and Drone layer this year, after 5 weeks of installing Eggs/BAS, and queen cells they finally decided they were ready to accept a queen,good thing for them because she was ready to dump them and start over. This was her takeaway on the whole situation. If I would have dumped them day 1 and made up a new hive I would be further ahead with a lot less time. Out of the mouth of babes.
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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: Pics of a Dec. dead out: discussion open??
« Last post by Bill Murray on Today at 09:30:23 am »Thats interesting, I had a conversation with the person doing the labwork and they said this Quote: Some hives in the study had high infections (up to 11 million spores per honey bee)that were also not showing any signs of infection. So I personally would assume N. ceranae. Which would explain a lot for why some hives just dont do well some years and peter out. Wet warm weather in Dec thru Feb, with early building and low early pollen are the years I normally have issues with N. apis. But I can see that. This N. ceranae is a totally different animal, it will be interesting to see if the spore count drops going into summer or if it goes up.