Hive Five (14×12) – Record Card
26th September 2014
- Half syrup remaining
- Fed another 5Kg sugar as syrup (total = 25Kg)
- No plans to continue feeding
17th September 2014
- All syrup had gone
- Fed another 5Kg sugar as syrup (total = 20Kg)
12th September 2014
- All syrup had gone
- Fed another 5Kg sugar as syrup (total = 15Kg)
- Related Post: Roger’s 15 Minute Meals
9th September 2014
- All syrup had gone
- Fed another 5Kg sugar as syrup (total = 10Kg)
7th September 2014
- Removed Apiguard
- Fed colony 5Kg sugar as a Thick Syrup using Jumbo Feeder (green).
23rd August
Added second dose of Apiguard.
9th August 2014
- Manipulated supers, so only one super contained nectar – and placed this below the brood box
- Bees extremely aggressive, see Aggressive Bees post. Got down my boots and stung my ankles, stung my ear, followed me 100m home, were still outside home 5 minutes later
- Added Apiguard
- We have to keep records of medical treatments used on bees, see photo below:
4th August – PM
- Gave capped supers back to bees
- Bees very aggressive
4th August – AM
- Removed supers of honey (provided about 8lb honey – felt like more though)
- Bees very aggressive
- Related posts: Honey Harvest 2014; Aggressive Bees
3rd August 2014
- Inserted clearer board
- Bees very aggressive
15th July 2014
- Added supers – had 3 by end of July
- Removed varroa board
- Counted 30 varroa, over 9 days
- Varroa calculator says:
- Average Daily Mite Fall = 3.3 varroa mites
- Estimated number of adult varroa mites in the colony = 130
- Treatment is recommended in about 2 month(s) time (counting from day of first monitoring).
6th July 2014
- 20C, sunny
- Bees aggressive – pinging off my veil but I carried on
- Saw eggs and larvae – so there’s a laying queen in there
- Did not look for Queen
- Brood box has bees on 10 out of the 11 frames (looking good)
- Super half full
- Added varroa count board
28th June 2014
- 20C, sunny
- Bees aggressive
- I backed off
21st June 2014
- 20C, cloudy
- Bees calm
- Saw eggs and larvae
- Did not find Queen
- Brood box has bees on 6 out of the 11 frames
- Added a super (so now has 1 super)
14th June 2014
- 21C, sunny
- Bees calm
- Saw eggs, larvae, capped brood, Queen
- Brood box: half foundation drawn out, 6 frames of bees
- Plenty of stores in brood box as have been feeding
- Removed feeder
7th June 2014
- 20C, sunny
- Bees calm
- Drawn out 6 frames – slow at drawing the frames
- Saw eggs, larvae, Queen
- To accelerate drawing out the frames – added feeder and fed 1Kg
1st June 2014
Transferred bees from poly nuc (hive 4) to this new hive
Background
- Found Queen and marked her with blue dot at end of June 2014 – she was big as a moth
- This Queen was born in April/May 2014
- This stock came from Pete’s hive on 13th April 2014
