I like the new feeder design, but I won't be surprised if the bees build comb in the pollen patty area. Seems Apimaye should know the bees love to build comb in empty space.
Yes, that could happen if you leave it on during a nectar flow on a strong hive. I usually don’t have feeders on in those conditions. I feed to boost a weak hive and get it going or build stores. Thanks for watching.
Just a taught , we have lots of hive beetles also and I find if i put the paper side down to protect the areas the bees can't get to and leave the side the bees can guard with out paper it works out really well. I find the beetles can get between the frames and the pattie and lay eggs and the bees can't remove them.
Hey Kajun. I usually leave it on both sides. I thought I’d remove it in the bottom since that mesh was down there. Maybe a bad idea. lol. Thanks for stopping by.
Looks like #10 Is going to come around good. Do not know if you have ever done this . If I find Larva in my Pattie’s I will switch them out with a new one an put the one with larva in the freezer then the next time I reuse those an put them back in a hive somewhere. That way it kills the eggs an larvae an can get them used up some where . Your heat is heading my way at midweek. Our high temperature has been around in the 70’s an getting warmer each day. Lowes in the mid 50’s . Thanks
As far as the warped comb is concerned just pitch it, there just is not enough wax in brood comb as you said to warrant the time in playing with it.I just leave mine tied up in a black plastic bag in the sun and what drips out of the hole in the bottom of the bag is about it, and generally just a waste of time. Except for the plastic you can just compost the left overs and they break down pretty good over the 12 months.
Hey Bloke. Yes it is a PITA for sure. I try to keep the straight pieces and scrape it off and power wash the plastic foundation. Not that one. lol. Thanks for stopping by.
Me here in MN is saying boost that sucker now! But you are probably right, your season is so much longer than mine. Without any honey stores to speak of how will you get that hive heavy for winter? Will you feed it thicker syrup every three to four days or will you have a strong enough fall flow?
Have you considered giving her a boost of emerging brood (no attached bees) from another hive that has an overabundance??? Up here in PA I'm in the process of reducing hives down to winter configuration and the 5x5x5 nucs I'll be overwintering are not as strong in population as I'd like so I take some of the big hive excess and give it to those nucs. Boosts the nuc population so they will have more foragers in two weeks to collect the fall flow... I've plenty of frozen honey frames to backfill if they need more. Both Wildflower meadow queens are in some of those nucs and doing nicely.
Hey Nancy. Yeah I thought about that. There’s quite a bit in there that should emerge in the next few days to get them going. If they don’t improve a lot in September, I’ll definitely give them more bees and brood. Thanks for the comment.
Darren, I’m glad your queen is there and doing fine. It sounds like she needs 1 frame boost of bees or 1 frame of capped brood as a boost. Either my math calculation or yours is wrong on your syrup. I hope that I haven’t done it wrong all of these years or you could have just said the wrong thing talking to the camera. You said your syrup was about 1 and 1/2 to 1 and you used 25lbs of sugar and 4 gallons or 32 lbs of water total or 12 1/2 lbs of sugar and 16 lbs of water per bucket. If you divide 32 into 25 it would be .78125 or what I would round to 3/4 to 1. The first number in the equation would be the sugar and the second number should be the water. Hopefully everyone won’t call me a “Fact Checker”. lol Please let me know if I’m incorrect and been doing it wrong all of these years.
Hi how about you just keep them to six frames full of stores and put in insulation covered in foil either side of frames for winter . It worked for me last year .
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I hope they build their numbers before cold winter hits !
That’s the plan. We’ll see how they progress.
Thank you
Thanks Richard!!
Crazy how the foundation melted.
Yeah, it gets stupid hot in Oklahoma. Thanks for watching.
Hopefully they get built up before winter.
Hoping is my plan. lol. 😝
I like the new feeder design, but I won't be surprised if the bees build comb in the pollen patty area. Seems Apimaye should know the bees love to build comb in empty space.
Yes, that could happen if you leave it on during a nectar flow on a strong hive. I usually don’t have feeders on in those conditions. I feed to boost a weak hive and get it going or build stores. Thanks for watching.
Just a taught , we have lots of hive beetles also and I find if i put the paper side down to protect the areas the bees can't get to and leave the side the bees can guard with out paper it works out really well. I find the beetles can get between the frames and the pattie and lay eggs and the bees can't remove them.
Hey Kajun. I usually leave it on both sides. I thought I’d remove it in the bottom since that mesh was down there. Maybe a bad idea. lol. Thanks for stopping by.
Looks like #10
Is going to come around good. Do not know if you have ever done this . If I find Larva in my Pattie’s I will switch them out with a new one an put the one with larva in the freezer then the next time I reuse those an put them back in a hive somewhere. That way it kills the eggs an larvae an can get them used up some where . Your heat is heading my way at midweek. Our high temperature has been around in the 70’s an getting warmer each day. Lowes in the mid 50’s . Thanks
Man it’s been terrible hot here. That’s a great tip. I usually toss them if they are very bad.
As far as the warped comb is concerned just pitch it, there just is not enough wax in brood comb as you said to warrant the time in playing with it.I just leave mine tied up in a black plastic bag in the sun and what drips out of the hole in the bottom of the bag is about it, and generally just a waste of time. Except for the plastic you can just compost the left overs and they break down pretty good over the 12 months.
Hey Bloke. Yes it is a PITA for sure. I try to keep the straight pieces and scrape it off and power wash the plastic foundation. Not that one. lol. Thanks for stopping by.
I would just add capped brood without bees from other strong hives you have
Hey Jack. I'll check it this weekend. There's a lot of capped brood in there now, should start to emerge soon. Thanks for watching.
Me here in MN is saying boost that sucker now! But you are probably right, your season is so much longer than mine. Without any honey stores to speak of how will you get that hive heavy for winter? Will you feed it thicker syrup every three to four days or will you have a strong enough fall flow?
Hey Russell. Yeah I have a bit more time than you do. lol. We’ll see how she does now.
Have you considered giving her a boost of emerging brood (no attached bees) from another hive that has an overabundance??? Up here in PA I'm in the process of reducing hives down to winter configuration and the 5x5x5 nucs I'll be overwintering are not as strong in population as I'd like so I take some of the big hive excess and give it to those nucs. Boosts the nuc population so they will have more foragers in two weeks to collect the fall flow... I've plenty of frozen honey frames to backfill if they need more. Both Wildflower meadow queens are in some of those nucs and doing nicely.
Hey Nancy. Yeah I thought about that. There’s quite a bit in there that should emerge in the next few days to get them going. If they don’t improve a lot in September, I’ll definitely give them more bees and brood. Thanks for the comment.
Darren, I’m glad your queen is there and doing fine. It sounds like she needs 1 frame boost of bees or 1 frame of capped brood as a boost. Either my math calculation or yours is wrong on your syrup. I hope that I haven’t done it wrong all of these years or you could have just said the wrong thing talking to the camera. You said your syrup was about 1 and 1/2 to 1 and you used 25lbs of sugar and 4 gallons or 32 lbs of water total or 12 1/2 lbs of sugar and 16 lbs of water per bucket. If you divide 32 into 25 it would be .78125 or what I would round to 3/4 to 1. The first number in the equation would be the sugar and the second number should be the water. Hopefully everyone won’t call me a “Fact Checker”. lol Please let me know if I’m incorrect and been doing it wrong all of these years.
18 lbs water / 12 ish lbs sugar = 1.5.
To be exact it’s 8.34 lbs per gal so it’s 16.68/12.5=1.34.
So it would be 12.5/16.68 which would give you a ration of .74
1:1 would be 12.5 sugar & 12.5 water
2:1 would be 25 sugar & 12.5 water
It depends if you are saying water to sugar or sugar to water. The math is correct either way.
Hi how about you just keep them to six frames full of stores and put in insulation covered in foil either side of frames for winter . It worked for me last year .
That’s a good idea. Hopefully they will get built up sufficiently before it gets too cold. Thanks for stopping by.