Perhaps a zig zag pattern.. ? How about a nice spiral...that will ensure the bees are scattered everywhere..?Originally Posted by Kate Atchley
Perhaps a zig zag pattern.. ? How about a nice spiral...that will ensure the bees are scattered everywhere..?
LOL not going to be that adventurous. straight lines will do me...
Well it was such a lovely day here today that I thought I would go up to my apiary and check on my bees... As I approached the apiary I started to hear this roaring sound that was getting louder and louder, O no I thought, is one of the hives been knocked over ???
No to my delight it was my two strongest hives out flying
what a delight to see. I checked on my other hives and they were starting to come out to and fly about in front of their hives. When I went to check the nuc that I have been overwintering I found that they were busy taking in pollen
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starting to get excited now
Cuteness!!!! (And snowdrops, from the look of it.) Every winter I go through a period where I start to engage with the other bits of my life, & think, hmmm, maybe I should give up bees for a bit, I'm not really so hooked on them am I?
& then they go & do something like this, & I'm a lost cause again. Enjoy!
Keep looking for a like button for posts like the two above Emma and Gwizzie!
Not so far from you Gwizzie and just spent the afternoon pottering round the bees, picking up my first sting of 2016 as I added fondant to one sans smoker! Just lovely - and looks like the weekend might even be warm enough to consider opening up a hive or two!
Today here in Ireland lots of bee flying in the warm sunshine, lets hope we dont get a bad cold snap as everything is going fine so far.
Think this is something that Gavin should look into as we don't have one ??
when you say not far from me do you mean close by ? not had my dose of venamin this year yet but im sure its not far awayNot so far from you Gwizzie and just spent the afternoon pottering round the bees, picking up my first sting of 2016 as I added fondant to one sans smoker! Just lovely - and looks like the weekend might even be warm enough to consider opening up a hive or two!
Well relatively speaking - I'm in Speyside and you're in Ross-shire. Us north of the central belt-ers need to stick together!
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gwizzie the suggestion of not setting the hives down in straight lines is to help prevent drifting ... to help bees return to the hive they came out of. Straight rows make this difficult.
Hi Kate, yes I am fully aware of that but think I have enough room to space them out and they won't be there all year as that compound is for overwintering mainly.
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