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Feeding and fighting

14/09/2016 By Maria

I have 3 hives now, my little hive fought on and on, I made a mistake of putting syrup onto the frame and then opening it to give them some water with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Feeding, Raspberries, 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

Stores up to date 15/09/15

15/09/2015 By Maria

Hive A  received 10 kg sugar syrup Hive B  received 9 kg sugar syrup Hive C received 7 kg sugar syrup Hive D received 10 kg sugar … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: BeeStrong, Feeding, flowers, guards, Optimal hives, stores

Feeding had to stop

31/08/2015 By Maria

I had to stop feeding since the 27th of August, noticed I had robbers coming for my syrup destined for my girls. Once I noticed they were getting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Feeding, Robbing

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

4th Hive !

20/05/2015 By Maria

Yesterday afternoon, while I was sorting out the lawn edges I stopped to listen to the bees. They seemed to be pretty loud and a lot of them in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Feeding, Hive Clean, Storms

October, ….

12/10/2013 By Maria

Bees had been fed, tidied up, treated with HiveClean and left to their own devices. I decided to feed as otherwise I might have lost them. I have made … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Candy, Feeding, hive, Hiveclean

Sugar dusting 3

03/10/2012 By Maria

I was a couple of days late with the sugar dusting. Had bad weather and strong winds. Bees seem all right, had some more attacks on their stores but … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Feeding, Sugar, Sugar dusting

29th July, 2012

29/07/2012 By Maria

We had an amazing thunderstorm last night, the weather has been a bit hot and humid so it was no surprise. I have noticed that the bees do a lot of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beekeeping Tagged With: Chanterelles, Feeding

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