Hive Dive

[Sung Han Lee]

Hive Dive at the club apiary today at 12pm

Today's task

• What to do with colony lost queen

• Demoree split follow up

• Miller Method Queen rearing demonstration 

See you

Sung Lee The Bee Charmer 

[Charles Carlson]

Thanks Sung!  It was a fun and informative afternoon.  The bees were cooperative.  The behavioral strategy associated with imposing a split on a crowded hive via a Demoree method was enlightening.  I never really understood what was transpiring in a hive when eggs and brood were isolated from close proximity to the queen and separated from by a couple of boxes of honey.  The Miller method of inducing queens cups was useful too!  And there were lots of good questions and useful answers with plenty of tips.

[Diana K]

At the very informative Saturday Hive Dive, Sung could not use the new miticide, Norroa, because the mite count was too high.  

What is he going to do to treat that hive?

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[Sung Han Lee]

Thanks for all come out.

Hive 3

Since the Drmoree split top super #5 is 95% full of honey.

This honey super will harvested next weekend to give more room to grow and will be replaced with 10 medium wax foundation frames and be placed #3 position. #4 was drawn comb wet frame placed yesterday. 

#2 deep super placed 3 weeks ago. It is already filled with eggs and broods including capped drone brood.

Hive 2 

We wanted use it for Norroa mite treatment. This is a RNA that disrupt mites laying ability. In order to place Norroa the colony must be low mite count under 3%.

It will maintain about 18 weeks according to the manufacturer. 

#3 top super was filled with 99% honey. Mite test was done with powder sugar roll test. It was 28 mites from 300 bees. Little over 9%. Decision was No Go.

One point is it had 2 square OA pads. However, it appears to be edges were all propolized. That explains why the mite count was high. Before the placement of OA pads mite count was 1. I harvested top honey super and placed 2 Apivar strips. After 6 weeks we will test it again and if it shows less than 3% of mites then we will place a Norroa package. Also we will test mites every month to see how mite control is like for next 5 months.

Hive 1

We placed frames with a queen cell from hive 3 results of Demoree. A week ago there was no sign of a queen. Yesterday there was a queen cell half was built with royal jelly in it. The question is is the queen cell viable? It has been almost 3 weeks. Where did they find an egg to build queen cell? Also royal jelly position was not in dead center. It was off to the side. Yes. your guess is as good as mine. I don't think this one is not from fertile egg.

As we planned placed two frames of Miller method queen rearing. Also moved 5 deep frames of egg, and brood frames with lots of worker bees from hive #3.

They should start making queen cells next a couple of days.  By next weekend if any case they didn't make any queen cells which they should i will place another egg frame from the other hives. 

Will see how it goes.

P.S. 

Next month will be led by Robin Chatham about handling bees.

Sung Lee The Bee Charmer 

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