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English summary: The rape seed is now in full bloom and the bees have found it which usually generates a good crop. When the bees have find a nice source of nectar they perform a dance to inform the other bees. Nu har bina hittat rapsen och de första ramarna skördades -med lite bra väderContinue reading “30 maj- raps och bidans”

English summary: A new method to add queen cell were successfully tested. Vi testade för första gången att hänga in en visecell med hjälp av aluminiumfolie och det fungerade alldeles utmärkt, en liten oparad drottning sprang på ramen. Inget mer komplicerat arbete med att skära ut kakbitar och nåla fast utan bara en bit folieContinue reading “Ny strategi som fungerar”

English summary: We are now in the hectic period where we collect swarms and it’s pretty cool to watch the bees walk into the new hive, see movie.We thought our biggest colony were planning a silent change of the queen but noticed in last inspection that she no longer produced eggs and consequenty was aboutContinue reading “28 maj – bin är luriga”

English summary: We found queen cells in two colonies which could indicate swarming. However, after checking all brood combs we saw plenty of newly laid eggs thus confirming that the bees have not starved her, and hence it’s a queen replacement. We let them do that as they please but we take the opportunity toContinue reading “Stilla byte och utrensning av drönare”

English summary: In below table we show the bee strength and mite fall in late april where we have a good controlled situation with mites but a very varied strength of the different colonies. The ones with more than 10 frames of bees can be expected to give a good crop, whereas the ones withContinue reading “16 maj – lågt nedfall men blandad styrka på våra bisamhällen”

English summary: The inspection this week gave us a full super with honey, regardless of the foul wheather, first new queen of the year and first queen cells, which probably is a silent change since there were only 4 of them, and plenty of new eggs. We used the queen cells for a nuc, sinceContinue reading “15 maj – ny drottning, viseceller och spontanavläggare”

English summary: We have started a new apairy to get close to rape seed. The spot seems to be a super place since there are loaded with good bee flowers such as salix, maple, fruit and berries but also a flower that we havent seen before: Winter cress. The lower image show fake swarmcell thatContinue reading “10 maj: smörgårdsbord för bina”

English summary: First days with some nice wheather so we made our first nuc of the year. It’s important to ensure plenty of honey and pollen in the nuc since they will not be able to forage for some time. We also started the sun driven wax melter which will extract all the wax fromContinue reading “2 maj-årets första avläggare samt dags att köra vaxsmältaren”

English summary: We had a good winter survival this year, with only 6% winter loss. However, some survivals are very weak with only a few frames of bees. We also noticed that colonies with 4-5 frames of bees in early March seemed to lost quite many bees during March and early April. One may askContinue reading “28 april-kuvösbin, eller varför dör mängder av bin på våren?”

English summary: My beebook is almost complete and this is how the front and back will lookNu börjar boken närma sig tryck – återstår bild av lönn och raps vilket bör komma inom kommande två veckor. Så här kommer framsida, insida och baksida med insida att se ut. Det går bra att förbeställa för denContinue reading “Biboken klar”