How To Deal With An Early Spring Cold Snap

How To Deal With An Early Spring Cold Snap

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[KoiKicks]

Being a gardener you learn March, April and May are inconsistent, a very mixed bag so don't rush to push things out. First season beekeeper but think this is similar for bees.

[sinisterhipp]

Nadiring hives is exactly what warre hives do. They don’t require any rotation afterwards.

[ivanovitchmarples]

Thanks very much for that update

That's answered this week's conundrum. Like you the weather in the Scottish Borders has been tremendous, but it's now on the turn

[estebanluiscanteros]

Good lucky for the new season. Greetings from Argentina 👍👍

[joecreaser]

I’m glad I’ve only peeked under the crown and left them as they were. I was in shorts and t-shirt last week and back in my woolly hat today.

[lagrangebees]

Great Info, I'll keep this in mind once the snow melts enough to get in my hives :)

[leoncamiller]

Saw next doors hives today with dubble supers on all his hives an fort to my self there in trouble.
I'm so happy I went with your advice with my hives. Thanks again mate, top man 👍

[wonwinit]

Checked they still had stores/fondant and let them get on with collecting pollen during the good weather.
When I do get in think I will have frames of stores to remove and replace with drawn comb so the queen can lay them up.

[HigimuraStudios]

Any news about the Apisolis Vape Smoker? I was wondering how it all turned out.

[rwdkai]

Highs of 17⁰c here in N. Ireland last week and lows of 7⁰c. This week highs of 7⁰c and -5⁰c here last night. Poor bees and wildlife in general..

[JP-nxrm]

I’ve put one super on of drawn comb, luckily left a bag of fondant on the crown board, my only worry is that the cluster might move above the queen excluder and leave the queen behind !

[scottmurray]

I took the chance when the temperature hit 16 degrees last week on my double 'Rose hive' to do my first peek. I've four hives in my back garden and I wanted to check out the weak/less active hive. The bottom box was empty. NOTHING. The top box was down to a single frame of bees. There was capped brood, larvae and eggs. I couldn't find the marked queen! I reduced her to one box, surrounded it with food one side and space for expansion on the other. One kilo of candipoline praying she survives. It's now 7 degrees when I get back from work. Do you think it is too weak to survive?

[russdean]

is it best to add a brood or a super underneath, if queen lays it up can I then move it above the QE when the times right, brood can hatch and they can back fill and cap it off like a normal super.?

[mcorne]

Great info and very timely! Two questions— when you add 2 supers at the same time as you did last year, which one do the bees draw first, upper or lower? Also, when you add additional supers, do you add on top of the existing full super or underneath the existing full super?

[malcolmsalter]

its a true old saying dont cast a clout till may is out

[Gilderoy]

Hi Lawrence, I see you are using a scale device. I’d advise that you turn the box with the solar panel on upside down as the cables should mount into the bottom to prevent water ingress into the connections. A stuffing gland can only grip a cable so tight and water will alway track down inside.