Worldwide Beekeeping
Beekeeping => General Beekeeping => Topic started by: tbonekel on August 06, 2014, 07:10:50 pm
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Haven't been on in a while. Not much going on and don't have a lot to add usually to the threads. We got about 4 inches of rain last week, something pretty unusual for August around here. I looked in the hives and everything seems good, but what I wish I had is a few pollen traps. I have not seen them bring in this much pollen ever, even in the spring. I have seen some uncapped nectar but not much. I wish I new what they were getting in to. This is the time of a pretty hefty dearth, but not now. I hope it keeps up.
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I hope so too Tbone, I definately see more stored pollen than nectar. My hives now are capped hummingbird syrup and pollen, nectar is pretty scarce here in Cali.
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Heya TBone!
The weather here has been oddly amazing.. STILL have a flow going.. not as heavy as spring, but they are storing and capping.. I have had to remove some frames of almost solid pollen to re open their brood area.. as far as I know they do not remove it if it is not used.. It is handy to have when making queens so I freeze it for future needs. I dont remove all of it btw.. They have quite a lot of it all over the place, but when I run across a frame that is nearly solid pollen it comes out... Kind of like capped honey frames in the brood area.. they come out as well.