🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

[N F C]

I'll go take a peek!

Looking great!

 

[cavemanrich]

Looking great!

Post a link to it in this thread. Makes easier way for others here to find it. Not to mention readers that are not members and read these threads.

 

[drstratton]

Post a link to it in this thread. Makes easier way for others here to find it. Not to mention readers that are not members and read these threads.

I will definitely do that once it's finished.
I watched the grandkids today and worked on it when I could. I'm going to have to give it a good look over tomorrow, because I did a lot of distracted writing...lol

 

[5Australorpasaures]

So... I'm curious... what do they taste like?

Sorry I couldn't resist..........taste like chicken!

 

[drstratton]

I started some Hummingbird Mint (Hyssop), for my bees from seed. Started 9 seeds, only 2 sprouted. I have about 20 more, so I will try again next spring.

Think I might have waited just a bit too long to transfer this one...lol

 

[drstratton]

The girls were still out foraging after 8:30 last night.

One of my Italian girls on my basil.

 

[drstratton]

The girls are hungry! I just fed them their syrup. I'm sure they will be ready for more when we get back home next week.

 

[Apis mellifera]

The girls are hungry!

It's that time of year in the north when bees are collecting pollen to raise winter brood. It looks like thier pollen baskets are full in your photo. My bees will be bringing in ragweed and goldenrod pollen soon followed by aster and knotweed. I don't feed this time of year because I don't want sugar syrup in my fall honey. Love knotweed/golden rod honey, its my favorite.

 

[drstratton]

It's that time of year in the north when bees are collecting pollen to raise winter brood. It looks like thier pollen baskets are full in your photo. My bees will be bringing in ragweed and goldenrod pollen soon followed by aster and knotweed. I don't feed this time of year because I don't want sugar syrup in my fall honey. Love knotweed/golden rod honey, its my favorite.

Yes, they're still bringing in lots of pollen. A lot of it is from my flowers and there are 2-3 bees on a good majority of them.
Sadly we don't have golden rod here, I wish we did. We are definitely in a dearth. There is a buckwheat field about 1.5 miles from our house. It will bloom in about 6 weeks. I will remove frames and spin it out, then replace them, when the bloom starts.
I will stop feeding them at that time. Until then, I will continue to feed as we're trying to encourage them to draw out more comb.
We'll be planting clover this fall, so that should help them next year.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

It's that time of year in the north when bees are collecting pollen to raise winter brood. It looks like thier pollen baskets are full in your photo. My bees will be bringing in ragweed and goldenrod pollen soon followed by aster and knotweed. I don't feed this time of year because I don't want sugar syrup in my fall honey. Love knotweed/golden rod honey, its my favorite.

Same here, I leave a deep of honey to get them thru the dearth and into the fall flow. Still feeding the split because I won't be taking anything from them the 1rst yr as I did with NUKS. If I wanted sugar syrup I'd just by some Log Cabin.