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luk_lak Replies: 5 Views: 10724 |
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Sorry to hear that
38 degrees actually running campaign to ban roundup to be sprayed in parks of my borough Tower Hamlets. https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ban-dangerous-pesticides-in-towe ... |
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luk_lak Replies: 6 Views: 10146 |
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Sorry to hear that. It looks bad things happen even to the best of us ![]() The weather is bad, few hot and sunny days but mostly rainy and gloomy. You have poo flying all over the place. I still don' ... |
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Hannah,
I think most bees are docile if not disturbed. In case of ignorant children / adults you'd probably need to build a fence and this still may not stop some... I have (or had) a colony ... |
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luk_lak Replies: 6 Views: 11096 |
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Merinos, not sure what you mean manually. I hope not extracting honey one by one from each cell with some tiny spoon ![]() My 2nd batch of honey-wax pulp is sitting on the sieve atm. From the leftover ... |
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Yesterday I went to clean up the hive.
There were 20 bees left, very docile, just clustered together, fanning wings. I've collected about 5kgs of comb honey. But I left a bit on top of the broo ... |
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luk_lak Replies: 3 Views: 5829 |
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Yesterday I was cleaning my TB hive and taking out debris (mostly dead bees) from the bottom. I was doing it by hand without gloves.
To my surprise I was stung. So either there was a bee still aliv ... |
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First batch of honey made 2 weeks ago, wasn't that bad.
First I cut some nice square comb. Then mashed everything together and filtered through fine sieve. Lastly pour it to the jars. Yesterday ... |
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My colony died this spring, most likely nosema. So I'm looking for easy, cheap way to clean hive, bars, and tools.
I've done some research and found that I could use: * 10% chlorine bleach * ace ... |
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luk_lak Replies: 10 Views: 13592 |
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I've checked outside and entrance of the hive and there are no spots. I saw on the pictures with nosema that the whole entrance sometimes is just covered with it. Also the comb I harvested was quite c ... | |
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Barbara,
When you say soiling/poo do you mean all the brown marks on the wood? I thought those are bits of old honey, propolis. There was no unpleasant smell that hit my nose, rather usual woody-ho ... |
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Due to my colony [url=http://www.biobees.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=113830#113830]dying out atm I have 4kg of pieces of honeycomb. Twice that much is in the hive and I guess I'll have to harvest it bef ... | |
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luk_lak Replies: 10 Views: 13592 |
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Thanks for the answers. Indeed something went wrong in my colony. It is almost gone. Just finished inspection as it was a lovely day.
This was my first big real inspection. And unfortunately quite ... |
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luk_lak Replies: 10 Views: 13592 |
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This is my only colony unfortunately.
Is that the only explanation? Or is there a chance my colony still have queen? |
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Hello all,
I think my drones and workers did not read the same books as myself on beekeeping. I thought the workers should kick the drones out the hive in Autumn to conserve the stores. To my su ... |
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luk_lak Replies: 2 Views: 7668 |
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Just found this interesting project:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/985910122/eyesonhives-the-health-monitor-for-honey-bees?ref=nav_search |
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luk_lak Replies: 5 Views: 9714 |
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Its beginning of Autumn here in London.
I've checked my observation window and colony shrank significantly, can see few combs with honey without bees on it. Most of them I guess now are in brood n ... |
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luk_lak Replies: 4 Views: 8277 |
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Barbara, ingo50, AugustC
Thanks for your answers. ******************************* Lukasz - Friendliest [url=http://permaradise.com/what-we-do/gardener-e14-isle-of-dogs/]gardener in E14 |
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luk_lak Replies: 4 Views: 8277 |
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This time got my camera. Photo is not great but clearly the bee on the left is much bigger than the workers. Is that drone or foreign bee that is robbing my hive? I have not noticed any aggresive beha ... | |
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Just got from another hive observation.
Now definitely saw varroa mites. Brown, round shapes size 1-2mm. Saw few of those none of them were moving. What I saw previously was much smaller, < 0 ... |
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Google Images is your friend! You'll see loads of pictures of Varroa close-up and on bees to give you a sense of scale
Thanks. But 99% of that photos is something I'm not capable to see with naked ... |
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luk_lak Replies: 9 Views: 16155 |
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Considering good Queen in optimal conditions can lay 2,000 eggs daily you get 2,000 dead bees every day. So 200-300 hundred is nothing to worry about. Especially it this is one time event and the colo ... | |
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I'm looking at my bees at the entrance and occasionally on a dead bee in front of the hive. The flying ones are to quick for me to spot anything. But never seen a mite on a flying or dead bee yet.
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luk_lak Replies: 3 Views: 7765 |
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I guess I should have taken a photo...
Yesterday was 34C in London, and my hive was baking in the afternoon sun. Te front board, where the entrance is, was shaded and it was covered with bees. N ... |
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Great video. Watched it twice, and then all their other movies.
Plus will be monitoring kickstarter to support them in case they want to make another film. ******************************* Luka ... |
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Wow, you rode with the bees free ranging on the box (not inside) in your car? Respect!
******************************* Lukasz - Friendliest [url=http://permaradise.com/what-we-do/gardener-e14-isle ... |
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luk_lak Replies: 8 Views: 13437 |
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Thanks for the answers.
But my technical brain is still missing something... How can bees make wider comb to join another bar if a) there is no space as it lies between 2 combs that are already ... |
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Thanks for the advice but I don't have tools nor materials nor space to do this. I purchased the hive fully assembled.
I think the holes are working well. The hive entrance is so busy during the d ... |
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All my bars are 32-33mm wide. And I can see the bees are using the guides to at least start each comb on the bar. What are the risk of leaving those bars without intervention? Will they stick them tog ... | |
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I've just read one thread about [url=http://www.biobees.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17264]First hive stripped clean and it get me worried.
I'm in similar situation: a beginning beekeeper with young c ... |
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luk_lak Replies: 9 Views: 16939 |
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I have only one hive so definitely no chance of being robbed by my own bees.
Thanks for the clue that robbing gets more obvious at the end of the day. I'll check this today. Yesterday's quick obser ... |
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