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Tavascarow



Joined: 06 Aug 2006
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Location: South Cornwall
PostPosted: Sun Feb 09, 14 12:47 pm    Post subject: Timber!!! Reply with quote
    

We have/had a WBC hive on the estate down the road.
On the edge of woodland beside a Leptospermum (Manuka) plantation.
Big tree blew down in the night & flattened the hive.
All the boxes & lifts are tinder but suprisingly all bar one frame was OK.
just transferred the frames to another hive & have fingers crossed the queen wasn't lost or balled.

SandraR



Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 2346
Location: Devon
PostPosted: Sun Feb 09, 14 1:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Oh no I hope it survives. I've been keeping a careful/wary eye on the trees in the hedge running alongside the apiary, fearing the same outcome.

Mistress Rose



Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 10, 14 9:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hope you managed to save the queen. Sadly, with the high winds, this is always a potential problem, and bees do prefer the protection of a hedge or trees.

Tavascarow



Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall
PostPosted: Tue Feb 11, 14 11:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We didn't make any effort to look for the queen, other than looking through the dead bees left in the debris to see if she was there, which she wasn't.
In circumstances like this the less disturbance the bees recieve the better [they have already had a big shock].
Just lifted each frame gently &transferred it to another box without smoke &covered them up ASAP.

Tavascarow



Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall
PostPosted: Wed May 14, 14 5:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Best hive we have going at the mo.
Queen has filled one brood box & well away on the second.
Advocating shock treatment to all bee keepers.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42207
Location: North Devon
PostPosted: Wed May 14, 14 5:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Did you put up a little notice saying "If you don't knuckle down and get on with it we're doing that again."?

Nick



Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford
PostPosted: Wed May 14, 14 6:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Do bees have knuckles?

Ty Gwyn



Joined: 22 Sep 2010
Posts: 4562
Location: Lampeter
PostPosted: Wed May 14, 14 10:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Nick wrote:
Do bees have knuckles?


Of course they do,
How do you think you get Bee Wack`s

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