A week ago, I visited a friends house, and saw many honey bees around her garden. The number of bees and their activity made me wonder (ok, worry) about our own quiet hive. We took advantage of the mild weather on Friday to check the hive. It's not terrible, but it wasn't good either.
Showing posts with label ants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ants. Show all posts
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Sunday, October 18, 2009
October Honey Harvest
An overcast Sunday was the perfect time to do what we think is the final harvest of the summer on Urania, as well as start the fall preparations.
My impression of the work today - we're getting the hang of this!
Thursday, April 30, 2009
ants!
dang it!
Was heading out to the shed to grab my bike and saw something black dotting the back of the hive. Ants!!! I looked all over the bottom boards of the Lang Stand and didn't see them anywhere. I was concerned we'd have to move the hive back to check out what was compromisng in the front, then I realized the ants weren't going up. They were coming down.
The potato bush that sits next to it had a branch just touching the side of the hive. The ants were all to happy to climb over to the hive. I saw them mostly circling the hive, looks like the supers & propolis may be preventing them from entering.
I had to run to catch the train, left the beeman to start pruning the potato bush back.
le sigh. :-/ The more we prune the potato bush, the faster it grows. We tried to dig it up once and ended up breaking the shovel. We may need to figure out a permanat removal strategey here quickly. I do think it's a pretty enough plant, anything green & purple is preferable to plain boring fence. dang, dang, dang.
Was heading out to the shed to grab my bike and saw something black dotting the back of the hive. Ants!!! I looked all over the bottom boards of the Lang Stand and didn't see them anywhere. I was concerned we'd have to move the hive back to check out what was compromisng in the front, then I realized the ants weren't going up. They were coming down.
The potato bush that sits next to it had a branch just touching the side of the hive. The ants were all to happy to climb over to the hive. I saw them mostly circling the hive, looks like the supers & propolis may be preventing them from entering.
I had to run to catch the train, left the beeman to start pruning the potato bush back.
le sigh. :-/ The more we prune the potato bush, the faster it grows. We tried to dig it up once and ended up breaking the shovel. We may need to figure out a permanat removal strategey here quickly. I do think it's a pretty enough plant, anything green & purple is preferable to plain boring fence. dang, dang, dang.
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