6 inspections on mine, a couple on the other hives and a couple of apiary days at the local association. Apart from the now regular occurence of a bee in the hair I've yet to receive a sting.
Having carried out a lightning quick inspection between showers this afternoon on a friend's hive and closed up we discovered a non leaky feeder, filled it with syrup and made moves to place the feeder on top of the crown board. It's a relatively small hive and we'd replaced two frames, where the foundation had dropped and they'd created a hell of a mess, with new frames of new foundation. No need for suits right? we're not taking the crown board off. As soon as we lifted the cover off the hole in the crown board a little stripey exocet of a bee shot out the hive and stung my friend. Feeder placed, with a new sense of urgency, we closed up and beat a hasty retreat.
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Bait hive has worked for the first time!!
11 years ago
I'd like to see some pictures on your blog.
ReplyDeleteGood writing, good facts and experience, but I like to see photos. I tell the same thing to my Dad who is now blogging about being a beekeeper on sugar...
http://campbellshoney.onsugar.com
Thanks for the feedback. I've been a bit lax with photos over the last couple of weeks as I've been flying solo, so to speak, and it's hard to hold a frame and take a photo at the same time, but I'll see what I can do as I do agree with you.
ReplyDeleteOh and small world on your Dad's blog, someone linked it to me this morning, been a very good read so far.
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