Congratulations on the fall flow sure beats feeding them.. hit so hard in Michigan it shut down the brood nest.. going around doing flash treatments with tymol they should be very clean before winter
Hi from southern New Zealand 👋😃 nice result for autumn flow 😁👍 maybe i need to borrow your offsider this summer, all my boxes are deeps 😂 in some apairys, the only equipment access is by wheelbarrow 😂🥵 More fun and adventure down the south island, the thyme is at the purple top stage about a week away from the purple honey carpet and some early thyme flowers are opening up 😁 got a nice burst of sycamore flowering this year so not having to watch the colony's during the twelve day drop between flowering willow and thyme flowering which is awesome and its shaping up to be a great flow. Little bit of chalkbrood showing up but it's clearing, i experimented with apiguard thymol gel on the bad chalkbrood colony's and it really cleared them up, i was surprised how quickly it worked too. Im adding it to my spring mite treatment from now on, its awesome 👍😃 ive even got one hive which i planned to demaree because of its strength coming out of winter that has a super and a queen excluder on already, ok its only one but im excited 😂
Pretty soon you are going to need one of those Ian Steppler-esq cranes mounted on your truck!!!! My lifter is the son-in-law model......all you have to do is feed him!
Dont be leaving all that honey for the bees, Im sure you can sell it and then some. Lots of time to feed with the right feeders. I just started feeding today here in Nova Scotia, I still have 60 honey supers on here and there. It's been above average temperature this fall and expected to continue. I use hive top feeders. The bees can move 4 gallons of syrup in 48 hours. Some hives don't need fed at all. Seems like everyone had a great fall flow, I removed my summer honey first week of September and put on a new deep box of foundation, I managed to get just over 300 boxes drawn out and full of honey in September on 400 colonies after sorting frames. Only made honey in June on Blackberry and Asters/Goldenrod in September this year. July and August was dry.
Congratulations on the fall flow sure beats feeding them.. hit so hard in Michigan it shut down the brood nest.. going around doing flash treatments with tymol they should be very clean before winter
Massive goldenrod flow this year.
Best in 10 years here in my area of southern Ontario. Way to go Peter.....
Hi from southern New Zealand 👋😃 nice result for autumn flow 😁👍 maybe i need to borrow your offsider this summer, all my boxes are deeps 😂 in some apairys, the only equipment access is by wheelbarrow 😂🥵 More fun and adventure down the south island, the thyme is at the purple top stage about a week away from the purple honey carpet and some early thyme flowers are opening up 😁 got a nice burst of sycamore flowering this year so not having to watch the colony's during the twelve day drop between flowering willow and thyme flowering which is awesome and its shaping up to be a great flow. Little bit of chalkbrood showing up but it's clearing, i experimented with apiguard thymol gel on the bad chalkbrood colony's and it really cleared them up, i was surprised how quickly it worked too. Im adding it to my spring mite treatment from now on, its awesome 👍😃 ive even got one hive which i planned to demaree because of its strength coming out of winter that has a super and a queen excluder on already, ok its only one but im excited 😂
Pretty soon you are going to need one of those Ian Steppler-esq cranes mounted on your truck!!!! My lifter is the son-in-law model......all you have to do is feed him!
Dont be leaving all that honey for the bees, Im sure you can sell it and then some. Lots of time to feed with the right feeders. I just started feeding today here in Nova Scotia, I still have 60 honey supers on here and there. It's been above average temperature this fall and expected to continue. I use hive top feeders. The bees can move 4 gallons of syrup in 48 hours. Some hives don't need fed at all. Seems like everyone had a great fall flow, I removed my summer honey first week of September and put on a new deep box of foundation, I managed to get just over 300 boxes drawn out and full of honey in September on 400 colonies after sorting frames. Only made honey in June on Blackberry and Asters/Goldenrod in September this year. July and August was dry.
Always awesome to get boxes drawn out👍
Okay, kudos, but how do you handle treatments???
Varroxsan already in after Formic Pro treatments.
Why are the hives taped together?
to prevent robbing
lol, too bad my hives spent half the summer queenless. sucks to miss out on the flow of the decade.
Eek!😬 Tough break 😵💫 sorry to hear that but every year is different maybe it's going to be the flow of the century next year 👍
Why do some supers have 8 and some 9 frames.
One or two supers I aquired have 8 frame spacers in. I prefer 9 frames