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It's not the right time of year for reproductive swarming, I'd think they were supersedure. Sometimes spare bees build these cells and don't do anything with them. Some beeks call them play cells. The bees probably know something about their Q that you don't. You mention a Q cell with grub in it. If it was my hive I'd leave them alone to do their thing, maybe have another look in a couple of weeks..see what happens.

No he means they're all intact and not open with boxes spread everywhere. Ie nothing needs doing urgently.

5 minutes ago, frazzledfozzle said:

There’s an unbelievable amount of hops being planted in the Tasman area and hundreds and hundreds of acres more going in.

 

Even Dairy farms are being converted 

 

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More than one or two vines got shredded by the hail the other day I believe.

What is this main flow ?

7 minutes ago, kaihoka said:

Do you mean honey ruined by blending ?

One way to render rata a  bit more palatable, blend it with flax.....

1 minute ago, ChrisM said:

But there is no point complaining about statistical reports of customs declarations.

Yes, we all know about declarations. 

34 minutes ago, Maggie James said:

I have been out this afternoon photographing large paddocks of flowering phaecelia.  

Why ?

2 hours ago, tristan said:

just unfortunate that we actually needed to.

its ironic that our underfunded, under resourced and poorly managed early covid response actually resulted in the best course of action.

absolutely brilliant piece of govt BS to call it "fast and early" when it was "slow and late" which forced us into lockdown.

had we tried to do it like Australia has done, we would have ended up like everyone else. fortunately our systems where so crap that it completely failed and we had to resort to the lockdown, which was the best move.

@tristanfor PM ! 

Waddayou on about now, a patch of Rata or an ostrich ?

2 hours ago, Wildflower said:

I now have a rediculous amount of bees and brood that I can happily sell.....Or can I?

You'd better be quick before James weakens & floods the market.

Are you still keen on this stuff in March when your gumboots are full of it ?

Neighbours in court in the 'Naki....

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A court has refused to intervene after a beekeeper's neighbour put a padlock over access to his land.

So are MPI actively investigating using dogs ?

I'm waiting to see what effect on my2 hive harvest the dissapearance of 40 hives from the neighbour's place will have.....maybe counteracted a bit by an average kanuka season...

It happens most years doesn't it ?

24 minutes ago, ChrisM said:

what a bunch of turkeys

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7 minutes ago, ChrisM said:

I would have thought some of their claims went pretty close to the edge; legally speaking(?).

But then again anything can be true on facebook.

Agree. And all sorts of people with very strange values live in Queenstown.

I haven't been able to find any references to nectar. have found this though ....

2 hours ago, tommy dave said:

what was the rationale behind burning the old frames?

If it's anything like mine it's laziness. Much easier to go buy new ones.

It's called "washboarding" and no-one knows what they're doing.

If it were my hive I'd leave the strips in, and let the bees keep all the honey they gather. (It's generally not a good idea to have treatment in place while honey is being gathered if the honey is to be harvested, although Bayvarol is less likely to end up in the honey than other treatments)

2 hours ago, ChrisM said:

it is a shame that Vegans would not have top bar hives, because then you could have all your least favourite things conveniently located in one place  

I can see it now, an overloaded ute full of vegans towing a trailer with a bent drawbar loaded with top bar hives that are still wrapped with a "Sold" sign. Merry Xmas or Bah Humbug to you All. 

5 hours ago, BRB said:

Fresh air and sunshine. With a touch of comb, brood and some honey.

I'm not sure what else you expected there to be in bee boxes?

A hive that size is bigger than the pauperish things I manage to maintain. I was curious to know if you already had a couple of full boxes of honey, or if you had a heap of brood, but never mind.