Old Speckled Hen Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Everybody enjoying this rain in the middle of a hosepipe ban? Crazy weather. It's set to continue through May just in time for the June Gap Who's feeding? I've got syrup on one and will be quickly today putting in a frame of food into the other. Anybody here crop OSR? Not much chance in many places I suspect. Happy days to come. Good job beekeepers are eternal optimists Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Yup, will be feeding this weekend - so few opportunities to fly, and the colony is still at post-winter size, it should have doubled by now. Very disappointing, I just hope I can keep them going till the weather picks up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Licken Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Yep - feeding the weaker colony who are taking in the syrup. I'll have to heft the supers on the other colony - they had expanded and also had loads of stores, and were foraging like mad- but the weather has been so pants over the last week that they could have gone through the stores rapidly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 Yes, we have feed on ours as well - I'm fed up with paddling in this drought! We are surrounded by fields of rape and our own small orchards and hedge boundaries are full of trees in blossom.....very disappointing that the bees are not able to fly and make use of it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
