The Honey Factory

[Sally PB]

Usually when someone sprays a pesticide you'll see a pile of dead bees the next day.

I think he said something about that. He had 6 hives on his property, and lost them. He had more hives (6-7) on a Mennonite farm and only lost one, and it had been weak going into the winter.

I should have said that he'd lost the hives on his property, not all of his hives.

 

[Egghead_Jr]

What an incredible fall flow. Not that I wanted the supers on this long but things got pushed back further than expected. My hives are high elevation and not what I would consider a prime area for honey yet I averaged 100 lbs per hive for the first time ever.

I'd pulled summer honey the third week of July and put two fully drawn supers back on the production hives to protect the comb thinking I'd get a super each of fall honey by the start of September. Well three weeks late and they packed both supers and had a good start on winter stores below. Thankfully I didn't put more supers on or I'd be mixing up a ton of syrup for them now.

 

[R2elk]

 

[Bigtom Turkey]

Not to brag but its 80 degrees here.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

75 here in South Jersy, and the bees are out and about.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

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No, just no.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

Going up to low 80s here in South Jersey. A good day to do last hive inspect and check their stores, get them buttoned up for the winter. Night time temps not falling below mid 40s for at least the next ten days so I'll hold off on the insulation panels. Always the optimist, I have a feeling we may pay for this 30 day drought in many inches of snow. DRATS!

 

[jerryse]

Asters from Sept 27.

 

[R2elk]

Going up to low 80s here in South Jersey. A good day to do last hive inspect and check their stores, get them buttoned up for the winter. Night time temps not falling below mid 40s for at least the next ten days so I'll hold off on the insulation panels. Always the optimist, I have a feeling we may pay for this 30 day drought in many inches of snow. DRATS!

I got a foot of snow in places. Lots of broken branches. It got down to 15°F at 12:37 AM MT. A Chinook blew in and it is now 31°F.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

I got a foot of snow in places. Lots of broken branches. It got down to 15°F at 12:37 AM MT. A Chinook blew in and it is now 31°F.

I'll pass, thank you.