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Did you have any mites? Or was it just in case?
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Just in case . I did not do a count . I actually wanted do it earlier but health delayed me . On a good note no hive were found earlier on the pollen patty .
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Of the 5 beekeepers I know here, not one of us got a hive through the winter. Together we have 19 hives.
No mite problem. Unless the package bees brought them with them.
No mite problem. Unless the package bees brought them with them.
Just got notified by UPS that a package from Mann lake will be delivered tomorrow afternoon. It was shipped from Salt Lake City today. It has to be a package of bees but whether it is one package or two is unknown.
Really bad timing. Prediction is for 1" to 6" of snow by Friday night with the high for tomorrow at 37°F. Not much better next week with highs of 42°F predicted.
Really bad timing. Prediction is for 1" to 6" of snow by Friday night with the high for tomorrow at 37°F. Not much better next week with highs of 42°F predicted.
Will you still spray with simple syrup to install at those temperatures? (or maybe you don't spray them anyway?)
What about feeding syrup? Honestly curious, always looking for bee opinions.
The latest info that I have is to spray them with warm water when they first arrive. They no longer recommend spraying with sugar water.
I will provide them with 1:1 sugar syrup via a feeder as soon as they are hived.
Another email from UPS and they have now changed the delivery date to Friday. I am guessing that these bees were a truckload shipment that left California either last Friday or maybe as late as this past Monday. UPS picked them up in Salt Lake City, Utah tonight after their normal departure for shipments from Salt Lake and are sitting in the back of a truck until tomorrow afternoon before the truck heads east to Rock Springs and then on to Casper.
I expect these bees to be very stressed by the time I get them.
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Everything I have found advises spraying 1:1 sugar water.
I am going off of the instructions that come with the package bees. It has been a long time since it said to spray with sugar water.
It's up to the beekeeper, the idea is if you spray the bees with 1:1 syrup they get sticky and clumpy so they don't fly in a new beekeepers face when shaking them out of the package. In cold temps it really isn't necessary. I always feed bees 2:1 syrup, it takes them longer to process 1:1 into honey. But the bees don't care, 1:1 or 2:1 is good.
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My bees came with the normal spray them with 1:1 instructions.
they also said to plug the reducer hole for 24 hours, that was new. I won’t be doing that again.
they also said to plug the reducer hole for 24 hours, that was new. I won’t be doing that again.
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