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There has been a lot of bee activity at the bait hive this morning. When I first looked for the swarm up in the tree I thought it was gone but then I spotted it later but it seemed like maybe it was smaller. The branch wasn't bent down as much. Seems sorta like the bee swarm didn't have a plan or maybe they had found a migratory hive that was empty and it moved overnight. They're 50 feet, 15 meters, up in a tree so not much I can do about that.
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I added some plates to attach the bottom board for moving the nuc hives around and to stack them 2 deep for normal or use as a bait hive. I also added a traditional 'looks like a tree hole' feature to the entrance, put a piece of corrugated plastic sheet under the cover so they can't glue it down, and used some canopy bungee cords to hold down the cover. It's baited up and 5 heavy waxed frames in the top box.
#beekeeping #NucHive #SwarmTrap #BaitHive #BeeSwarm #apiary #diy #bees
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I took the new hive and I divided it vertically to make two 5-frame bait hives. I had a deep sized divider so I just made another one with the ability for the upper one to slot into it. It should work and I can put frames in the lower box too if I want to keep it divided this way for longer.
Now we wait for warmer, drier, less windy weather.
#beekeeping #bees #SwarmTrap #BaitHive #BeeSwarm #apiary #April8
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The bait hive, or swarm trap, is set. Lemongrass oil put on the cotton ball in a little plastic bag and it hangs between the first two frames. I rub propolis on all the top bar sides, and I rub saved comb wax from hive inspections that hasn't been rendered on all the foundations. I don't have extra brood comb to use.
This sits at about eye level behind my hives under a little pine tree.
#beekeeping #bees #SwarmTrap #BaitHive #BeeSwarm #April8 #apiary
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I don't think anything has actually moved into the bait hive. This seems like a scouting party that has been partying at the bait hive all weekend. There's more during the day but a dozen or so have been staying every night.
#beekeeping #bees #apiary #BaitHive #SwarmTrap #MastodonOnly
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The fire drill hive from yesterday isn't bearding today. The moved upper half is figuring out where the welcome sign is after flying to the old location. Both the empty hive and the bait hive have scouts checking things out.
I put a feeder on top of the fire drill hive too, there were bees at the screened inner cover hole.
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There's been a lot of activity in the last hour, and just now I see the lower half of the split is all in flight circling in the space above the hives... Maybe they're just have a bigger cleansing flight today.
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The excitement of seeing a single bee at the bait hive, that is probably the same single bee from yesterday.
There was a second one as I got ready to post this and I see it or another even at the other empty hive. First decently sunny and not windy day so far for a while. Lets hope it's not just my bees.
The darker bees from last week haven't been back so their hives probably got trucked off.
3 or more bees now as I finish typing this. 😃
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Saw a bee go in to the empty hive and waited for it to come out. I see on the video there was another in there too.
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I gave the empty hive a little visual indicator of a hole since I saw a bee checking out all the dark spots in the wood as it was flying around it.
This is a deep box with frames sitting on top of an empty medium super for some space. The hive is on top of the old single hive stand, which is sitting on top of the long hive stand.
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There has been activity at the bait hive this afternoon. It started with just one bee surveying inside and out and then I saw FIVE bees at once. 😀 Steady activity since noon.
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Scout bee on the first day with the bait hive out? 😆
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Setup a second hive and the bait hive today. Did not put the bait hive 15 feet up in the tree to the right of it like last year.
It's early but there are hives out in the orchards around. Saw some near some pears that might be blooming and I can see hives along the apples across the river which is most certainly a couple of weeks early.
I have a camera on scout bee surveillance duty. 🧐 🐝
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Beekje in Schillingen, Hunsrück/Saar | Bächlein in Schillingen, Hunsrück/Saar | Brook in Schillingen, Germany
#Schillingen #Hunsrück #Saar #RheinlandPfalz #Palatinate #Duitsland #Germany #Deutschland #beek #creek #bach #bomen #trees #Bäume #natuur #nature #Natur #weide #meadow #Wiese #winter #fotografie #photography #snapshot #publicdomain
https://www.instagram.com/p/CmzNiMFLz84/ by @reinoudk via @Instagram
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Pics of some of the frames of honey from the top deep.
It's been above 50F/10C since noon and partly sunny with no wind.
They're good for food, and for numbers it looks like. Won't be any pollen in quantity for maybe a month when the willows bloom.
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Video of the entrance before I opened it.
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Looked like a lot of bees out of the hive so I decided to open it up and check their food supply. Lots of capped honey in the upper deep, some that looks like it didn't get capped with some of that crystalized. Not very much from the upper deep has been consumed.
There were still a lot of bees in the hive.
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A short video of the bee activity today.
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Double digit sub freezing temps, snow, then rain and fog, and after 3 weeks it's a partly sunny day. The bees were flying in numbers, vs the occasional single brave (?) bee that would fly off into the cold and damp.
Mostly sunny, 48F / 9C with a 10mph wind.
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Before noon while the sun was shining on the hive, the temperature inside dropped to 25.9F / -3.5C and there were bees active at the entrance and it was almost 5F / -15C outside.
The bottom board at the entrance felt a little warm in the sun.
This afternoon when the hive has been more shaded the temp inside went up to 37F / 3C.
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It was sunny and 51F / 10C this morning before noon and the bees were taking care of business after some days of rain and snow before that.
#beekeeping #bees #beehive #langstroth #TheBeeKeeper #decemberbees #winterbees
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Meanwhile, there are teams of bees out in the backyard scoping our spare beekeeping gear looking for new housing. Swarm season typically doesn't happen until late February. Southern California. Wildfire weather, high winds, winter. (ostensibly, it's winter) #beekeeping #swarming
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Nouvelle semaine, nouvel essaim ! C'est la saison, si vous en voyez dans la rue ou à la campagne, appelez une apicultrice ou un apiculteur, s'il n'y en a pas , ne faites rien, n'y touchez pas, elles partiront seules pour leur nouvelle demeure choisie après discussions et congrès #beekeeping #abeilles #bees #swarming
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How To Handle Swarm Season
https://thewalrusandthehoneybee.com/how-to-handle-swarm-season/
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Yellow pollen going into the hives today.
#beekeeping #bees #HoneyBees #apiary #BeeVideo #BeeMovie #bee #pollen #pollinators #April1
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The white nuc yesterday. It seems to have guard bees on duty so maybe they like the queen I put in there. I see a few other bees coming and going but the activity is less than the green nuc. This one only had 2 frames of bees, brood, food, and queen cells when split but I put an emerged queen into the hive the next day.
#beekeeping #NucHive #apiary #BeeSplit #QueenBee #bees #April28
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The bees at the green nuc yesterday. This is the one that has 3 frames of bees, brood, food, and queen cells. I've seen foragers coming in with pollen so I guess some didn't decide to go back to their old hive. I might have observed a little bit of robbing going on too but it's hard to tell if the bees fly off into the yonder or turn directly into one of the hives next to it.
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A bit of beekeeping today. It was about 2 days for the West hive to empty the 1.5 kg of honey in the feeder and to celebrate that 1 of them stung me.
The Center hive, pictured, is full! Upper deep is heavy, lots of bees, more comb in places it shouldn't be. I put a super on it so maybe I'll see some late flow to harvest.
The East hive had a few frames not built out in the upper deep so they shouldn't run out of room and I can feed.
#beekeeping #bees #HiveCheck #apiary #MastodonOnly #CCBYNCND
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This was the hive that had the original queen from the captured swarm last year and the hive that the found on the ground queen came from. I'll wait a couple of weeks now I guess and then make a mess of their lower brood box again hoping they won't bridge everything together again with honey stores.
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Yesterday I saw a little cluster of bees on the ground below the north hive. While poking through the cluster to see if a queen was there, and getting buzzed by a lot of drones going into the hive, I actually saw a queen fly into the hive.
I checked this one too and the lower brood box was busy but didn't break it down because everything was bridged together and I could hear a queen piping so I left things to be for now.