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Today's Topics:
1. Re: To Super or Not to Super for New Hives? (Walter Starks)
2. Re: To Super or Not to Super for New Hives? (Sara Brewer)
3. Free Queen* (Marty Hanks)
4. Monma spoken for (Marty Hanks)
5. Bee nightclub? (Rachel Watersong)
6. Re: Bee nightclub? (Randall Austin)
Subject: Re: [ocba] To Super or Not to Super for New Hives?
Date: July 2, 2016 at 10:13:25 AM EDT
Randall has written a very good article regarding when to feed, when to stop and why.
My guess is that if your using double deeps you probably don't need a super.
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Walter
You never can tell with bees. ~ Winnie-the-Pooh
Hi everyone - OCBA Class of 2016 newbies here with a question.
Everything seems to be going great - after 80% or so drawn out on the bottom deep, we added the second deep to both of our hives on June 8th. We've been feeding like crazy in Miller Feeders and just letting them be.
Today we suited up and inspected the top deep. On both hives, they are certainly 80% if not almost completely drawn out and full Mainly honey (well, sugar water honey) but some capped brood also in top deep.
Do we add a super at this point (for their winter stores) or just leave them alone? We haven't even purchased a queen excluder or any supers yet for the first year, so don't know if we need to go ahead and purchase these for the first year.
If the answer is no super, do we stop feeding or can it hurt to continue to feed them this first year?
Thanks everyone,
Sara & Rick
Subject: Re: [ocba] To Super or Not to Super for New Hives?
Date: July 2, 2016 at 10:36:52 AM EDT
Great article - thank you for pointing it out. I believe it's not only time to take off the feeders, but to also freeze a few frames of capped honey/sugar water from each and replace with empty ones.
Subject: [ocba] Free Queen*
Date: July 6, 2016 at 5:23:28 PM EDT
I just found a new nuc under stress from robbing. Found the queen inside being harassed. She is marked & from a Brushy Mtn Nuc this spring.
Free cause she is stressed, free cause im about to leave on vaca. But i thought id at least try to save her!
In southern chapel thrill
Marty
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Subject: [ocba] Monma spoken for
Date: July 6, 2016 at 6:06:14 PM EDT
Thanks gang. Queen spoken for
Lil momma is getting a new home tonight
Mh
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Subject: [ocba] Bee nightclub?
Date: July 9, 2016 at 7:49:47 PM EDT
Hi bee friends and mentors,
First year beekeeper here with a mystery. I have two hives, both
started as nucs in May. They're both low in stores and I didn't feed
them last week because I ran out of sugar. Yesterday and today I've
noticed that several bees (like 5 at a time) are going up to a plastic
flowerpot in the backyard, poking their heads into the little holes in
the bottom of the flowerpot, and busying themselves in some way. The
flowerpot is full of ordinary potting soil.
What might they be doing? Are they getting some nutrition from the
potting soil? They have a watering bowl right near the flowerpots, so I
don't think they're getting moisture.
Any ideas?
Rachel Watersong
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Subject: Re: [ocba] Bee nightclub?
Date: July 9, 2016 at 9:23:10 PM EDT
Hey Rachel,
The article <
here>
talks a little about bees and water. They typically prefer water
with a bit of a kick to it. For example, clogged gutters with
rotten leaves and rain-filled sunken cowpies are well known as bee
favorites. I often see large hordes of bees working over the
surface of my gravel driveway after a rain, obviously getting
whatever it is that they want from the damp ground.
The article <
here>
by CG Butler details research into the bees' water preferences.
Just a little bit of gunk in the water is ideal; too much is
repellent. FYI, Dr Butler died recently at 100 and some years old;
he was a tremendously prolific and groundbreaking apiculture
researcher, well known for his work regarding queen pheromones.
Now,
your bees may be getting into
your flower
pots for some completely different reason, but this answer is
consistent with what you say is happening.
Randall Austin
On 7/9/2016 7:49 PM, Rachel Watersong wrote:
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Hi bee friends and mentors,
First year beekeeper here with a mystery. I have two hives, both
started as nucs in May. They're both low in stores and I didn't feed
them last week because I ran out of sugar. Yesterday and today I've
noticed that several bees (like 5 at a time) are going up to a plastic
flowerpot in the backyard, poking their heads into the little holes in
the bottom of the flowerpot, and busying themselves in some way. The
flowerpot is full of ordinary potting soil.
What might they be doing? Are they getting some nutrition from the
potting soil? They have a watering bowl right near the flowerpots, so I
don't think they're getting moisture.
Any ideas?
Rachel Watersong
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