The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Bees & Beekeeping => Topic started by: cloddopper on November 15, 2014, 06:00:57 pm
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Starting to tidy up the veg & flower beds today I was surprised to see four honeybees at work on the fuschia's
We have several specimen fuchsia in the gardens that are still in strong flower.
The bees were also active on the snapdragons that were sown in July for planting out in spring 2015 , most have a fair show of flowers on them ,surely that's cheating .
Plenty of other flowers are still in good bloom , the pompom dahlia's look fantastic & are also still attracting lots of all types of bees.
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Yep our bees have been similarly active up to date as well. Not too sure what that is going to mean by the time they do hunker down for winter, given that all the flying may mean early dipping into of stores.
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Yep -down here too. Spent most of the day moving my hens to a new patch of grass, and noticed my bees flying all day. Amazing.
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Every sunny day recently the ivy outside our house has been covered in bees and flies all over the flowers. Not that we have had much sun recently , our hen run is very soggy!
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I was surprised to see ours out and about yesterday too :bee: :bee: :bee: :bee: :bee:
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Every sunny day recently the ivy outside our house has been covered in bees and flies all over the flowers. Not that we have had much sun recently , our hen run is very soggy!
Our ivy has been busy too. No bees now though.
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Yep our bees have been similarly active up to date as well. Not too sure what that is going to mean by the time they do hunker down for winter, given that all the flying may mean early dipping into of stores.
At least they will be able to harvest the IVY pollen as well as any nectars , might be worth a look into the hives to see if you can feed a strong syrup with thymol or an anti fungicide.
Thymol helps prevent mould & varroa ..... evidently , though I'm not sure about that . .
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Our ivy was moving with bees yesterday. Not so many today :raining:
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There were dozens & dozens of bees visiting our hanging baskets and geraniums this afternoon. It seems really odd having so many out in the late afternoon almost into December.
At least it means there is either a feral nest or a hive somewhere fairly local.
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Our hives were really busy yesterday. Never seen anything like it at this time of year
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lets just hope it does them no harm as they should be tucked up for the winter :fc:
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Our hives were really busy yesterday. Never seen anything like it at this time of year
Yep, ours were flying yesterday in the sun. Won't be flying today I guess :)
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These were ours on 29th Nov
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They look good Bionic.
Even today at 2 Dec 2014 15.00 hrs there are still plenty of honey bees visiting the flowers in the hanging baskets & flower beds.