Author Archives: Ewa&Mikael

English summary: This year have been notoriusly poor with honey and even the Linden flow missed. When the high temperature arrived the Linden had already passed. We took a swarm whwere they had built combs which we secured with rubber bands but the bees did not approve and throw out the rubber band after áContinue reading “17 Juli – ännu ett missat drag samt grönt pollen”

English summary: The droon season is now over and its time to make conclusions. We seem to have a few lines who perform DBVSH (Drone Brood Varroa Sensitive Hygien), a novel resistant trait against Varroa destructors. In the images we can see the progress of the bees cleaning out three cells which we beleive isContinue reading “11 juli – slut på drönarutskärningen”

English summary: We collected some unprocessed nectar that we found on the combs and put them in the fridge and now that we have a draught in our forest apiary we gave some of the smaller hives a bit of feeding from the fridge. We also saw some black pollen in the hives, perhaps clover.Continue reading “9 juli – stödmatning, svart pollen samt strejkande drottning”

English summary: There are disputes whether feral bees would build smaller cells, perhaps as small as 4,5 mm, and if thsoe small cells would be beneficial to reduce Varroa fertility and thus the total population. We caught a swarm that had built 10 combs and when I measure the cells it seems to be sameContinue reading “Små celler naturligt för bin?”

English summary: We rescued another swarm and this time the bees had made combs in a box on a porch. We had to cut out all combs, atach them to our frames and put in our boxes and finally collect all the bees that tried to hide. Since they were starving we gave them aContinue reading “5 juli – ännu en svärm”

English summary: In our forest apiary there is very little nectar at the moment so the bees are frantically searching for something to eat. In this time period it is crucial to ensure that every colony have at least 3-4 combs of honey to avoid brood stoppage. We have two hives with naughty bees whereContinue reading “4 juli – dragstopp i väntan på Lind”

English summary: Newly mated queen with the penis of the drone still hanging. I år har vi satsat på många avläggare eftersom vi vill hjälpa dem som blivit av med sina samhällen pga vinterförluster. Vi har gjort ca 15 avläggare och just nu är parningen på full gång – vi har levererat 4 st ochContinue reading “29- Parning av avläggare”

English summary: We have melted over 200 “ugly” combs in our sundriven wax-melter and also reused about 100 combs of watery honey. The 100 or so combs with concrete honey is soon to be used up – we give them to the bees one at a time and place them in the middle of theContinue reading “21 Juni-alla fula ramar utsmälta”

English summary: We collected a swarm that had built combs in the hedge where they sat. We put them in frames with rubber band and some cords, and since they were starving we gave them a couple of honey combs.Svärmtelefonen ringde och vi begav oss till Onsala där vi fann en liten svärm. Det somContinue reading “Ny svärm”

English version: Our newest sort honey.Vår nya sorthonung från polkagristrädet:)