Bees flying today and the chickens started laying eggs again :)
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Bees flying today and the chickens started laying eggs again :)
Checked 10 hives at my allotment apiary for the first time in 5 weeksand signs of life in all of them.
Looking like a better start to the season than this time last year when the penny had just dropped that losses were going to be very heavy.
I have 5 nucs in the garden still alive and kicking as well as 5 apideas.
4 still to check at the association apiary as well as 9 nucs overwintering for beginners.
They are all heavy so no need for any fondant.
Today we have a mighty wind PLUS driving snow.. The daffodils are nearly out , the snowdrops have been out for weeks and the catkins are waving about on the hazel bushes. We've been sawing up our fallen trees and stacking the logs ready to dry out for next year. My workshop is filling up with new equipment we've been making for our new teaching apiary .
Bloody hell.
just looked behind the shed and the wind had blown the shelving down.
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Must have happened earlier this afternoon.
The wind really picked up after midday.
One of the slot shelving uprights had come off tipping 3 nucs and 6 apideas on top of the nuc lower down which tipped over as well.
It was held on with 75mm screws screwed into 4 inch battens so I don't know how that could have failed.
Maybe the uprights came away from the screw heads with the wind rocking it.
It looked like a pile of lego with nucs, apideas, planks and insulation in a pyramid on top of a muddy quagmire.
I discovered this just before dark and got everything back together as best I could.
I closed everything up as I need to fix the shelving and put everything back in place tomorrow.
Will be a bugger working out the order of the apideas.
cross your fingers for the ten queens in that lot.
For a moment I was confused cos I saw bees out. then I saw the leaves on the trees so it was taken last year
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Photo was taken on 13th November.
Hopefully all ok unless a queen or two got nipped in the fall.
I think they were only exposed for a couple of hours.
Well, today (so far) is what might be called 'mild'. Precious few days like this in these parts over the last 50 or so days; the clever people with calculators and pretty maps might disagree but I doubt that they've been stood outside trying to work in the almost constant chill of the wind.