Hope not. Our second tankerload just arriving this evening.
All depends on hive type and location however. Bees we fed in the middle of last week are pretty well all finished their 14Kg of invert, and as recently as this weekend were still drawing foundation. Still have ovewr 800 to feed, and actually not worried about them taking it. Want to finish the wooden hives this coming week,or 10 days, but the polys will take syrup fairly readily well through to late November unless particularly weak.
Fed two large groups on Friday and Saturday, and peeked in on some of them this afternoon, and the best of them had already taken well over half the syrup.
However, wooden hives and Ross-shire means it is getting late, though the forecast for the next ten days or so is generally favourable.
Last edited by Calluna4u; 26-10-2015 at 07:28 PM.
Hi C4u
You are able to get wax drawn in October and are still feeding syrup in November so I am probably over cautious
I find they are not keen to draw wax in colder weather and if they take syrup down late the hives have condensation and damp through Winter
I must try to take more chances but am always worried about just losing them over Winter
So Gwizzie apologies for planting seeds of doubt
You are on the right track it seems
DR
NO worries Bud I took of the supers this morning and got about 15 frames with honey in them, BUT not all full about 3 out of the 15 were nearly full. I gave them a good shake and the bees fell off back into the hive and the honey that was not ready fell into the hive on the bees, and they seemed happy with that. All the hives were checked for weight and they did seem all to be ok for weight.
All frames drawn and fill with stores for the winter in the brood box just topping up with some sugar syrup before they wont take in any more, one of the hives the feeder was jam packed with bees trying to get to the syrup, but this is in a poly hive......
Hi gwizzie
Fingers crossed for a reasonable Winter where the hives stay upright and we don't need a canoe to get to them
What's your plans re varroa
Are you going to treat with oxalic
Some interesting observations with regard to water content of honey in this recent blog post from Erik Osterlund:
Cell size affects water content
http://www.elgon.es/diary/?p=779
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