The queen who went in the wrong place. Today I found a mystery awaiting me at the allotment. Ever seen this many bees. And bees with pollen disappearing within their midst? Usually you might get maybe a couple of bees wandering around under the floor. I had a look through the hive to see if that might help solve the mystery. All looked well at the entrance, the bees were enjoying the sunshine after a pretty miserable and rainy week.

Experiments in edible gardening and related topics. or maybe not so related, such as living in Japan. Taper the front edge of the sled base to assist in getting it engaged and on the table when loaded. Either drill and counterbore additional holes in the sled base or mount a t-track to enable more flexibility with the clamp mounting.

The new homepage of Simon D Rees. A method for finding an elusive queen. 1 Choose a warm day when the foragers are flying. 2 Quietly and gently move the brood box containing the elusive queen onto a stand at least ten feet away from its current site. Replace it with an empty brood box, and leave the supers and queen excluder on the original site. This entry was posted in Beekeeping.

Maybe next year I should try queen rearing? Jul 4, 2015 Beeking 2015. It has got me thinking about how I manage swarms and queens going forward.

Okay, I am pretty much resigned to the fact that this season is a total bust! The birth of son number three has hit my evening sessions incredibly heavily due to the other two boys playing merry havoc as it ensures they get to stay up late. On the Thursday and Friday evening I had tied up a half dozen poly yarn olives, some high riding poly yarn and deer hair sedges as well as some nymphs and they did the business for the two days of hard fishing. Trout with a Poly Yarn Olive.

The diary of an amateur beekeeper. Show me the Honey! November 6, 2013. I also find the same true when you beekeep! Once again the months have flown by and I not kept up with posts. To cut a long story short I decided to volunt.

A blog of beekeeping and living afloat. So a little late in the season I started my 2. Queen cells empty after the queens have emerged. To help me work out the timings and work to a calendar I found this website. And their queen rearing chart a great help you simply enter the date you wish to start and it does the rest although I have made one alteration to it and transfer the cells a day later to the mating nucs as I think they are a bit early with their timings. The nine queen cells cap.

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