They are not usually so close. I move the last batch home where I can keep an eye on them. I don't really worry about drifting.Jon, with your video of Apideas next to each other, they are quite close, so do you have issues of bees flying into the wrong hives or have you seen bees move from a queenless one to a queenright stock?
Fatshark.
I dug this one out from my photo collection.
This one is about 9000 feet above sea level on the slopes of Popocatépetl.
agave-popo.jpg
Enough talk of Agaves, back to the Apideas.
I did a bit of work on mine yesterday.
I still have 10 alive but a couple are definitely too weak to overwinter so they will only last until the first cold spell if they even make it that far.
Several are packed with bees and stores so I have high hopes for these ones.
I removed the feeders, which were in the top box, from most of them and replaced them with a block of fondant inside a plastic bag, about 750g
The fondant sits on a piece of correx with a slot in it to allow bees access from below.
The problem with apidea feeders is isolation starvation.
The bees need to be right beside the fondant.
This is the hi-tec equipment for making the support for the fondant.
correx-feeder-slots.jpg correx-feeder-assembled.jpg correx-feeder-with-fondant.jpg
Obviously, need to rip open the plastic through the slots
Last edited by Jon; 08-12-2013 at 02:34 PM.
Spoke too soon.
Make that 8 alive rather than ten.
I went to add a feeder to another apidea and noticed it was far weaker than expected.
This one had an older marked queen I had removed from a colony in September during requeening.
This was the problem - supersedure gone wrong.
supersedure-cell-apidea.jpg
There was no sign of a virgin queen so I shook them out in front of the weakest one and crossed my fingers.
One of the other weak ones had succumbed as well.
Hi jon
I have 2 only now but I see the giant magnets in post 22 could save them
Scientists have proven that the correx magnet is more efficient than the magic crystal in promoting bee health and wellbeing.
Got to get your feng shui right or they could grow up with the wrong sort of wings on them.
I can't see no magnets ... one of us should have gone to Sp*cs*avers ...
Jon .. how can you be sure they were scientists? Were they wearing white coats and glasses? As we all know, only scientists in white coats are, er, scientifically proven to be scientists.
I've not tried growing feng-shui. Is it a good plant for nectar or best used young in a stir-fry?
Last edited by Trog; 08-12-2013 at 09:26 PM. Reason: idiotic afterthoughts; it's that sort of evening ..
white coats and glasses are good indicators of scientific rigour but the clincher is a clipboard.
And a reassuring male voiceover quoting statistics ...
87% of statistics are made up ... it says so on my clipboard.
In that case, can I say that 99.9% of bees prefer lady beekeepers? I did a survey and 99.9% of the five bees I asked buzzed in a very positive manner.
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