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What is that strange yellow light coming from the sky??

Colonies with the varroa issue had second vapes yesterday between showers. Supers removed during treatment. I love this out apiaries owners, they invite me in for coffee when it's raining! The hive where the queen flew away last Tuesday is all good - she's come back and is laying (and is now...

That last one on eBay sold for £74!

I predict swarming will start in earnest on Tuesday. We are going camping for a couple of days and that’s what normally happens when I’m miles from home 🙄

That looks AMAZING! Want one!

I moved the entrance block round on one hive this morning to give them more room to get in. It’s actually been warm and sunny the last few days (& supposed to be carrying on like this) and there was such a logjam of bees trying to enter the hive yesterday afternoon, they looked like they were...

And more ‘once in a lifetime’ winter storms!

Well, the weather here has been warm today & apart from overnight storms tonight & occasional patchy rain tomorrow & Friday, is set to be the same for the next week so I would not have been surprised to find them charged on next inspection.

I think I had that in the back of my mind regarding a Demaree. There is forage - mostly hawthorn (they’re filling supers but not super fast) & weather is set to be patchy again for the next week.

No I don’t, but I’ve never seen so many play cups in one colony - on every frame, all round the edges. And this colony was swarmy last year.

Yes!

If they start charging the QCs, then they are already in swarm mode? There were a lot of play cups all round the edges of every frame. This colony was quite swarmy last year so I’m thinking I split them now and I can always reunite and have a spare queen for another colony if needed. But agree a...

Pre-emptive split. Catch them before they go into full swarm mode.

OA vaped the two nucs and hive in the out apiary and also had a new queen fly off! Wouldn’t normally poke around but they keep making charged QCs despite a new queen so only went in to knock them down. First frame gently out and she’s off! Hung around for a bit and closed up very slowly so...

My OH bought me a Flir 1 Pro for my birthday in December to fit my iPhone 11. We recently decided to upgrade our phones to the 15 which has a USB-C charger so is no longer compatible with the Flir (lightning connector)…. doh! 😩 Ordered a Lightning to USB-C connector from Amazon but it doesn’t...