News Item: : Garden treatments
(Category: Our bees)
Posted by Sally
Sunday 27 December 2009 - 18:30:58
Today we treated all of the hives in the garden with oxalic acid. Using the recommended mix of 3.2% oxalic in 50% sugar syrup solution, we dribbled 5ml of the solution along each active seam of bees.
We decided to treat hive one even though its daily drop was much lower - maybe the bees disagreed because one came out and stung me - or maybe I shouldn't take things so personally!
We were particularly pleased to see quite how many bees there are in the hives - much better than we had thought and will definitely give them a good start in Spring and hopefully improved by a reduced varroa infestation.
Hive 5 has 5½ seams of bees.
Hive 4 has 6 seams of bees.
Hive 3 has an amazing 9½ seams of bees.
Hive 2 has 6½ seams of bees.
Hive 1 has 7 seams of bees.
This news item is from Beesmith
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(Category: Our bees)
Posted by Sally
Sunday 27 December 2009 - 18:30:58
Today we treated all of the hives in the garden with oxalic acid. Using the recommended mix of 3.2% oxalic in 50% sugar syrup solution, we dribbled 5ml of the solution along each active seam of bees.
We decided to treat hive one even though its daily drop was much lower - maybe the bees disagreed because one came out and stung me - or maybe I shouldn't take things so personally!We were particularly pleased to see quite how many bees there are in the hives - much better than we had thought and will definitely give them a good start in Spring and hopefully improved by a reduced varroa infestation.
Hive 5 has 5½ seams of bees.
Hive 4 has 6 seams of bees.
Hive 3 has an amazing 9½ seams of bees.
Hive 2 has 6½ seams of bees.
Hive 1 has 7 seams of bees.
This news item is from Beesmith
( http://www.beesmith.co.uk/news.php?extend.224 )