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Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Sun Feb 09, 14 12:47 pm Post subject: Timber!!!
We have/had a WBC hive on the estate down the road. On the edge of woodland beside a Leptospermum (Manuka) plantation. Big tree blew down in the night & flattened the hive. All the boxes & lifts are tinder but suprisingly all bar one frame was OK. just transferred the frames to another hive & have fingers crossed the queen wasn't lost or balled.

SandraR

Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 2346
Location: Devon

Posted: Sun Feb 09, 14 1:37 pm Post subject:
Oh no I hope it survives. I've been keeping a careful/wary eye on the trees in the hedge running alongside the apiary, fearing the same outcome.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15997

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 14 9:28 am Post subject:
Hope you managed to save the queen. Sadly, with the high winds, this is always a potential problem, and bees do prefer the protection of a hedge or trees.

Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 14 11:53 am Post subject:
We didn't make any effort to look for the queen, other than looking through the dead bees left in the debris to see if she was there, which she wasn't. In circumstances like this the less disturbance the bees recieve the better [they have already had a big shock]. Just lifted each frame gently &transferred it to another box without smoke &covered them up ASAP.

Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Wed May 14, 14 5:54 pm Post subject:
Best hive we have going at the mo. Queen has filled one brood box & well away on the second. Advocating shock treatment to all bee keepers.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed May 14, 14 5:59 pm Post subject:
Did you put up a little notice saying "If you don't knuckle down and get on with it we're doing that again."?

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Wed May 14, 14 6:02 pm Post subject:
Do bees have knuckles?

Ty Gwyn

Joined: 22 Sep 2010
Posts: 4613
Location: Lampeter

Posted: Wed May 14, 14 10:12 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

Do bees have knuckles?

Of course they do,
How do you think you get Bee Wack`s

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