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English summary: 28 of October, 12 degree C outside and a bit gray. A few bees arrive with Pollen.Idag har vi 28 oktober och det är 12 grader och lite grått ute. Tittar till kuporna och ser till min förvåning att några bin kommer med pollenbyxorna fulla med gult pollen. Vad kan de dra påContinue reading “28 oktober – pollendrag”

English summary: October weight of the hives – all hives are in good shape. Dags för vägning och alla samhällen mår bra så här långt. Eftersom vi hade lite problem med cementhonung samt att någon kupa hade för lite mat i september så fick vi rumstera om litegrann och därför kan vi inte jämföra förbrukningenContinue reading “27 Oktober – månadsvägning”

English summary: This year have had many challenges and cement honey is one of them. We beleived we sorted all of these poor combs but realized that they can look fresh and shiny and still be very sticky. So, we had to check all colonies to ensure that no cement honey was left in theContinue reading “17 oktober- panikkoll av ramar”

English summary: When using honey as winter food one can extract honey in September and even in October and today we took 7 combs although we could have taken much more if we wanted. All hives in our forest apiary have now plenty of food, all are strong or very strong (record was 20 framesContinue reading “5 oktober- överraskningsskattning i Öxabäck”

Nu börjar lugnet lägga sig i bigården och det mesta stöket är över. Vi ställer alla tomma ramar i lådor och sätter en burk med ättika för att hålla motten borta, när kylan kommer löser sig det av sig självt. Alla matramar ligger i insektstäta plastlådor med lite ättika och kommer användas i vår somContinue reading “Bigården i Oktober”

English summary: Formic acid is sometimes needed if the mite population is way too big but unfortunately formic acid is alos known for killing queens. We tried a method where we lifted off the honey super and placed the queen there and put it back after one day when the concentration of formic acid haveContinue reading “28 sept. Lyckat Misslyckat test”

English summary: Some claim that it is impossible to have queens mated in the autumn partly due to no drones and partly due to low temperatures. Research have shown that a queen can fly down to 12-14 degree C if needed and if there is a flow drones will be kept quite late in theContinue reading “27 sept. Sent parade drottningar- en omöjlighet?”

Short english summary: Honey below 20% water can still start to ferment if the honey have chrystallized. The water will then end up in the fructose portion and then the honey starts to ferment. It will not make the honey go bad and if the honey is stirred and slightly warmed the chrystals are brokenContinue reading “Jäst honung får man kasta?”

Short English summary: Due to the great Heather flow we gave been forced to wait with the winter-in and even this week we were unable to push them down to two boxes and will probably have to let the ones in our forest apiary stay on three boxes.The honey season have been great and weContinue reading “22 sept. Falsk matematik och “misslyckad”invintring”

English summary: The bee year have no start nor end since what we do today will impact the result 6 month later. Since we have noticed the the farmers have planted rapeseed we will bring several hives from our forest apiary to ensure we get a good rape seed flow. Since we have plenty ofContinue reading “15 sept – planering för nästa säsong”