My bees did the same thing as this when I put a treatment of apiguard in and put the inspection board in to count mite drop. I have since removed the inspection board and the bees are now back to normal. Might be due to fumes given from the treatment with very little ventilation.
I have just bought one of these waben extractors. It took a month to arrive. The seller told me posting problems. I personally think it had to come from China first. I have just put it together and the quality is decent although one of the threads on the leg has got some weld on it stopping the...
Thank you for your help and wisdom, I will do just that. That's what I wanted for the bees to feed from their own hard work rather than me feeding them substitutes. Hope I haven't messed things up with the apiguard. I will get the treatment up to the top of the hive as soon as I can.
My set up is standard national bb with queen ex, then because I had to unite a colony at the start of my beekeeping i have another bb but just full of stores then above that I have a super with half full stores. I have already taken a full super of honey from the hive so what is left is for the...
I put the apiguard just above the queen excluder as the instructions say put it above the brood. I also watched the video on you tube where he places it just above the brood box. Sounds like I have made a newbie error and I need to put in the top of hive above supers.
I would say maybe 100+ dead bees around the immediate area of the hive. I have put my apiguard right above the queen excluder. I found it unusual to have so many bees to be hung on the underside of the inspection board when it was chilly with drizzle.
During last week I put some apiguard in my hive and put the inspection board in place so I could check for mite drop. I went up to the hive today, some three days later to check and what greeted me was quite a lot of dead bees on the floor around the hive. When I went round the front of the hive...
When would be the last chance to extract honey in the season? Taking into account needing time to put treatments into the hive and time for the treatment's to work.
I've had a similar experience latley, my normally placid bees have been coming at me in numbers and the stings have got through my washing up style gloves. I wanted to see if all was well in the brood box after me being away on holiday. After looking at two frames and seeing bias that was good...
After a sticky start to beekeeping I had to unite a queenless colony. This was a successful uniting but it meant I had to use my spare brood box from my spare hive. After the queen went down into the bottom box I put a queen excluder directly above to stop her coming back up as I wanted to...
I will be buying my first hive soon and was wondering, is it worth paying extra for brood boxes and supers with viewing windows in them? Or do they soon get mucked up and unable to see into them.
Thank you everybody what have replied. Itma i think you are right i need to be involved up close before jumping in both feet first. Yes it would be next spring/ summer when i want to try my own hive. I am looking at Barnsley and wakefield associations and need to join one of these for my best...