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Apiary Diary September 2021
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<blockquote data-quote="Dansar" data-source="post: 7617" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>4 weeks ago we found a hive on its last legs. It had chomped through most its winter feed by early July sometime and had received a dry sugar feed to tide them over until I was back from other work duties to deal with the apiary. They got a small feed of syrup by less experienced staff early August and I caught up with them for varroa treatments at the end of August. Ideally they should have had a top feeder put on and received a bulk feed.</p><p>Anyway the result we came across was the typical last gasp of what was a big colony with most dead out front and on the floor.</p><p>There was about 4 frames of sad bees and the queen remaining alive (just alive), so…..</p><p>Reduced it to one box, gave them syrup in the internal frame feeder and I poured a bit over the bees to encourage grooming and incidental feeding.</p><p>Checked them yesterday. All alive.</p><p>Boosted back up with 4 frames of capped brood and attached nurse bees plus a frame of pollen, honey and attached bees all from several colonies. Smoked the beejeezus out of them to mask pheromones.</p><p>Added more feed (2.5 litres) 1/2 a Megabee pollen substitute and another brood box. Happy beekeeper happy bees.</p><p>Back in a week to put a top feeder on that I never seem to have on the Ute🤣</p><p>Yes! they survived!</p><p>[ATTACH]858[/ATTACH]</p><p>Spread the frames ready for some reinforcements</p><p>[ATTACH]860[/ATTACH]</p><p>Boosted ready to expand with 4 frames of capped brood included</p><p>[ATTACH]859[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dansar, post: 7617, member: 8"] 4 weeks ago we found a hive on its last legs. It had chomped through most its winter feed by early July sometime and had received a dry sugar feed to tide them over until I was back from other work duties to deal with the apiary. They got a small feed of syrup by less experienced staff early August and I caught up with them for varroa treatments at the end of August. Ideally they should have had a top feeder put on and received a bulk feed. Anyway the result we came across was the typical last gasp of what was a big colony with most dead out front and on the floor. There was about 4 frames of sad bees and the queen remaining alive (just alive), so….. Reduced it to one box, gave them syrup in the internal frame feeder and I poured a bit over the bees to encourage grooming and incidental feeding. Checked them yesterday. All alive. Boosted back up with 4 frames of capped brood and attached nurse bees plus a frame of pollen, honey and attached bees all from several colonies. Smoked the beejeezus out of them to mask pheromones. Added more feed (2.5 litres) 1/2 a Megabee pollen substitute and another brood box. Happy beekeeper happy bees. Back in a week to put a top feeder on that I never seem to have on the Ute🤣 Yes! they survived! [ATTACH alt="7DBF646F-24EB-4BE3-A170-A630475729FA.jpeg"]858[/ATTACH] Spread the frames ready for some reinforcements [ATTACH alt="76426FBA-A8DE-4A20-8DF0-922C2766B631.jpeg"]860[/ATTACH] Boosted ready to expand with 4 frames of capped brood included [ATTACH alt="5D79EBA1-C84B-492C-A64F-0F4FAF31EC0D.jpeg"]859[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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