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Bees in September 2017

10/09/2017 By Maria

I started feeding on the 22 of August with 1 1/2l of the inverted syrup I purchased a year ago. I rung the chap from the shop where I got it from to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping, Uncategorized Tagged With: Bee Vital, Bees, Feed, Hive Clean, Inverted syrup, Mike, Robber screen, Robbers, sirup, stores, Super, Varroa

Feeding = Robbing

01/08/2016 By Maria

I am starting to think that this is going to be the case every time I feed my bees. Firstly once I started feeding I reduced the entrances, on the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Apifonda, Bee Vital, Feeding, flowers, Hive Clean, Robbing

Feeding, inspections, …

14/04/2016 By Maria

On the 7th of April I mixed up syrup and got ready to feed, just prior to two days of rain, except with that came colder temperatures so it took them … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Bee Strong, Bee Vital, Feeding, Foundationless, Queen

Bees inspection the first of 2016,

05/04/2016 By Maria

It was about 2pm, I decided to do it later on in the day as it was warming up a bit too rapidly and the scent of honey was drifting somewhat so as not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Bee Strong, Bee Vital, eggs, Feed, Queen, Robbers

Emergency feed!!!!

08/03/2016 By Maria

Last night after feeding the sheep I went to look at the beehives, Hive B, a small colony of bees from last year had lots of dead bees in the entrance … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Bee Strong, Bee Vital, sheep, stores

Feeding so far

23/08/2015 By Maria

Started feeding on the 21st of August 2015, I made a 2:1.3 mix, 2 kg of sugar to 1.3 ml of water.  I usually feed a 3:2 mix but as I only had 2 kg of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Bee Strong, Bee Vital, Feeding, Varroa

Sun, Rain, Hail, Storms, …

11/06/2015 By Maria

We have just about had it all in the last two weeks, in between beekeeping we  have been chopping wood for winter, making hay, generally keeping the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Bee Strong, Bee Vital, Brood, Capped, Hive Clean, Queen, Queen cells

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