Apiary Diary March 2022
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yeah a bit of side effect of building bit by bit.
that shed is the 2nd built and the one the pic is taken from is the 4th shed to be built.
there is actually drainage in the corner but that was going full noise and couldn't handle the volume of rain.
thats been the heaviest rain i've ever seen there. thats i would guess more intense than mondays rain. the photo shows the medium rain after the heavy rain.
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Come to Otira and listen to them and i will even find some tadpoles for you to take home but we have no mosquitoeswow awesome ! I couldn’t tell you the last time I saw or even heard a frog
Crikey Bighands - R U Diversifying into tourism? Perhaps sell a jar or two of honey?
Torrential rain in the night along with wind. Pretty soggy around here but I think we only got the spillover from further north.
@nikki watts I ran into a pair of your fellow islanders in Molesworth last week, they were on their way home from Christchurch.
Really. I wonder if I would know them.
There are so many new arrivals
Since covid started.
Ok. Yep, I know who you’re talking about, really nice people.
Yes we did get the truck back, turns out the nz criminal world is very small.
Has all the rain on the east coast been a problem for beeks.
Or is the season over there and hives are set for winter.
We have had endless easterlys and no wind most of this yr.
I feel sad for the people on the east coast , their enviroment is really struggling to cope with the current weather.
Our enviroment is used to that sort of weather and easily adjusts .
Or is the season over there and hives are set for winter.
We have had endless easterlys and no wind most of this yr.
I feel sad for the people on the east coast , their enviroment is really struggling to cope with the current weather.
Our enviroment is used to that sort of weather and easily adjusts .
Neighbouring farmer just tells me that we had only had 45% of the normal rainfall for the first 3 months of the year. It is very, very dry for Southland, I haven't seen it that dry here ever. It's great for the bees, they're still bringing in some nectar, great for me, I don't have to stress feeding and negotiate the mud we can get, the only problem is not to look too happy when I meet a farmer....
101 wintering….. we gave up waiting for the honeydew….
In a ‘normal’ year we might extract 8 or 10 tonne of dew…. This year we got nothing and I bought 3 tonne of sugar to get the ball rolling
Bayvarol has een in for a bit over a month.
We did some alchohol washes yesterday…
Picked up two mites in first wash, zero in the next two.
In a ‘normal’ year we might extract 8 or 10 tonne of dew…. This year we got nothing and I bought 3 tonne of sugar to get the ball rolling
Bayvarol has een in for a bit over a month.
We did some alchohol washes yesterday…
Picked up two mites in first wash, zero in the next two.
Ps …. Rata vine is flowering!
my bees are very busy in the rata vine.
it is a good flowering and temps are still 23 dg during the day.